Burr Alert: This Old Waiver? I’ve Had it for Years

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The Georgia Supreme Court has further eroded the viability of the Georgia confirmation statute with its recent decision in York v. RES-GA LJY, LLC. In York, the Supreme Court affirmed the lower court’s application of last year’s PNC Bank decision to a guaranty’s boilerplate waiver clause that broadly waived “any and all rights or defenses based on suretyship or impairment of collateral, including, but not limited to, any rights or defenses arising by reason of . . . any ‘one action’ or ‘anti-deficiency’ law or any other law which may prevent Lender from bringing any action, including a claim for deficiency, against Guarantor, before or after Lender’s commencement or completion of any foreclosure sale action, either judicially or by exercise of a power of sale[.]

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