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New 6th Circuit opinion puts the brakes on expedited tax foreclosures by county land banks

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​​​​​​​You knew the wheels were falling off the (medieval) cart when the federal 6th Circuit Court of Appeals rattled off English legal theory from the year 1470, right?   Advocates for county land banking activities in...more

Hudson Cook, LLP

Fair Lending Developments: Wrestling with Causation

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The past year saw the lower courts wrestle with the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Bank of America Corp. v. City of Miami that, like the Court’s previous ruling in Texas Department of Community Affairs v....more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

MoFo New York Tax Insights - Volume 7, Issue 6

New York City Tribunal Rejects City’s Attempt To Forcibly Combine Bank And Its Mortgage Subsidiary - The New York City Tax Appeals Tribunal, affirming a determination of the Chief Administrative Law Judge, has held that...more

Baker Donelson

Claim Purchasing as a Strategy to Avoid a Cramdown

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While there are many factors that can lead a business or individual to file a chapter 11 bankruptcy petition seeking to reorganize a business, often times, particularly in a single-asset real estate case, the primary impetus...more

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MoFo New York Tax Insights - Volume 5, Issue 12 - December 2014

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In This Issue: - ALJ Rejects New York City’s Attempt to Forcibly Combine Bank and Its Non-New York City Mortgage Subsidiary - Tribunal Amends Decision Upholding Disallowance of Nonresident Partner’s Loss from...more

King & Spalding

“Predatory Lending” Claims by Cities and Counties Against Financial Institutions Escalate in 2014

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Cities and counties that have experienced increased foreclosure and vacancy rates in the aftermath of the housing market crash of 2007-2008, perhaps emboldened by recent court decisions, have recently filed several new...more

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L.A. Sues JPMorgan Over Discriminatory Mortgage Lending Practices

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On Friday, May 30, 2014, asserting that “[i]t is axiomatic that banks should not make discriminatory loans”, the City of Los Angeles filed a two-count complaint against JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Federal Court for the Central...more

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