On August 8, 2017, Judge Charles S. Haight Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut denied defendant’s motion for partial summary judgment in Law Debenture Trust Co. of New York v. WMC Mortgage. The court held that plaintiff may continue to pursue its failure-to-notify claim on loans other than the loans for which plaintiff had specifically notified WMC of alleged breaches. Judge Haight also declined to prohibit Plaintiff from using statistical sampling to prove liability and damages, although he did not find that such sampling would ultimately be sufficient to prove the plaintiff’s claim, and refused to grant defendant’s motion for summary judgment on the meaning of a “material and adverse” breach. Read the summary judgment order here.
