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Houston Harbaugh, P.C.

Pennsylvania Federal Court Dismisses Gas Driller’s Declaratory Judgment Lawsuit Involving Oil & Gas Lease

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In an October 10, 2023, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania dismissed a gas driller’s declaratory judgment lawsuit involving an oil and gas lease in the SWN Production Company, LLC v. Blue...more

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Second Circuit Affirms Dismissal Of Claims On Defaulted Argentina Bonds As Time-Barred

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On June 22, 2022, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal of claims seeking recovery on defaulted bonds issued by the Republic of Argentina.  Bainbridge Fund Ltd. v. Republic of...more

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Fourth Circuit Considers Limits of Federalism

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Federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction. Marbury v. Madison (circa 1803) is perhaps the most famous example of this principle. But the limits of federal jurisdiction are regularly tested in our courts today. One...more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

A Loan In Default Can Still Be Assigned

Borrowers looking to invalidate a foreclosure sale often come up with interesting theories. One frequent strategy is to attack the validity of a prior assignment of the underlying note and deed of trust. As explained in...more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

Trustee Has No Duty to “Verify” Validity of Loan Assignment Before Foreclosure

A trustee in charge of administering a trust has many duties. A trustee appointed pursuant to a deed of trust, however, is different.  The duties of a deed of trust trustee are exceptionally narrow. A recent opinion...more

Winstead PC

The Texas Supreme Court Holds That The Only Consideration In Probating A Will After The Four-Year Limitations Period Is Evidence...

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In Ferreira v. Butler, a husband and wife divorced, and the husband married a second wife. No. 17-0901, 2019 Tex. LEXIS 375 (Tex. April 12, 2019). The second wife died, and the husband never probated her will, which left...more

Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP

To err is human, to sometimes forgive is CCP Section 473(b)

In his Daily Journal article, Partner Stephen Squillario discusses the potential escape hatch that is provided by C.C.P. Section 473(b) when an attorney's mistake, inadvertence, surprise or neglect has harmed the client. ...more

Carlton Fields

Contract Claims Dismissed Against Reinsurers and Reinsurance Service Providers, but Negligence Claim Against Service Providers...

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Vantage, the plaintiff, had purchased insurance from Assured Risk Transfer (ART) against the risk that a company to which Vantage had loaned $22 million would default....more

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Ninth Circuit Affirms Dismissal and Summary Judgment in Default Servicing Class Actions

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On August 28, 2018, the Ninth Circuit affirmed Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers’ decisions in two putative class actions challenging Citibank’s and J.P. Morgan Chase’s default servicing practices. In Stitt v. Citibank, N.A. and...more

Dechert LLP

Exelco’s US Chapter 11 Case Dismissed in Favor of Belgian Proceeding

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The Delaware Bankruptcy Court recently dismissed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case pending before it and recognized, under Chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code, the debtor’s bankruptcy proceeding in Belgium. Exelco NV (“Exelco”), a...more

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Federal Judge Dismisses Claims In Nationwide Default Servicing Class Action

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On March 30, 2017, Judge Karas of the Southern District of New York dismissed multiple claims in a putative nationwide class action challenging default servicing activities. In the case, Tardibuono-Quigley v. HSBC Mortgage...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Chris Lazarini Comments on Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing

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Bass, Berry & Sims attorney Chris Lazarini commented on a case in which the plaintiff claimed Merrill Lynch acted improperly in selling shares held as collateral for a loan when plaintiff had not defaulted on the loan. The...more

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Ninth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Default Servicing Class Action

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Last month, the Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a putative class action that challenged certain fees imposed for property inspections conducted after the named plaintiffs had defaulted on their mortgages. Demonstrating...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

No Free Houses—Florida Supreme Court Approves Fifth DCA’s Bartram Decision and Extension of Singleton v. Greymar

The mortgage industry scored a significant victory last week when the Florida Supreme Court released its decision in Bartram v. U.S. Bank, N.A. broadly approving of the approach taken by the Fifth District Court of Appeal and...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Client Alert: Florida Supreme Court Rules that Dismissal of Foreclosure Action Returns Parties to their Pre-Foreclosure Action...

The Florida Supreme Court issued its long awaited decision in Bartram et al. v. U.S. Bank NA, case number SC14-1265, on November 3, 2016, affirming the decision of the Fifth District Court of Appeals in U.S. Bank Nat. Ass’n...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The Ninth Circuit Holds That Enforcing A Security Interest Is Not Necessarily Debt Collection

On Oct. 19, 2016, the Ninth Circuit held that merely enforcing a security interest is not “debt collection” under the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”). In so holding, the Ninth Circuit disagreed with...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Eleventh Circuit Holds that Borrower’s TILA Claims Are Subject to Agreement’s Forum Selection Clause

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The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that a borrower’s Truth-in-Lending-Act (“TILA”) claim fell within the scope of a loan agreement’s forum selection clause. Stiles v. Bankers Healthcare Grp., Inc., ___ Fed....more

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

California Court Reluctantly Vacates Dismissal of Legal Malpractice Action

Younessi v. Woolf (Cal. Ct. App. Feb. 16, 2016) - Brief Summary - The California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, reluctantly affirmed an order vacating the dismissal of an attorney malpractice action where...more

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