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Fraud Default

Fraud is the making of false representations or engaging in deceptive behavior in order to unlawfully secure financial or personal gain. 
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

FHA Changes its Defect Taxonomy for Originators and Services

Over the past month, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has enacted and proposed several changes to its Defect Taxonomy. The Defect Taxonomy is contained in Appendix 8 to FHA Handbook 4000.1. The Defect Taxonomy was...more

Freiberger Haber LLP

Pleading Reasonable Reliance Is “Always Nettlesome”

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By: Jeffrey M. Haber In TD Bank, N.A. v. Keenan, 2023 N.Y. Slip Op. 06158 (2d Dept. Nov. 29, 2023) (here), the Appellate Division, Second Department examined the often “nettlesome” question of whether a plaintiff claiming...more

Lippes Mathias LLP

The Rise and Fall of the Paycheck Protection Program

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The Long-Term Effects Felt by Lenders Nationwide. As a result of the United States government instituting the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”), companies nationwide have defaulted on hundreds of thousands of PPP loans,...more

Whitman Legal Solutions, LLC

Don’t Let Someone Steal Your Home

How the Home-Stealing Scam Works - These facts are based on a news report from NBC4.com. I've added to the scenario to fill in the gaps. A couple, whom I’ll call the Smiths, received a letter supposedly from the County...more

King & Spalding

Bankruptcy Court Permits Suit Limiting Default Interest and Subordinating Claim to Go Forward, but Dismisses Fraudulent Transfer...

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On February 25, 2022, Judge Christopher J. Panos of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Massachusetts granted in part and denied in part an assignee lender’s motion to dismiss claims brought by an affiliated group...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Affirmatively Plead Your Defenses, or Risk “Waiving” Them Goodbye

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Many litigants are familiar with the well-settled rule that an affirmative defense will be waived if it is not included in a CPLR 3211(a) motion to dismiss or in the answer (see CPLR 3211[e]).   And so, lawyers tasked with...more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

Loan Guaranties: Statutory and Legal Defenses Can Be Waived, But What About Equitable Defenses?

Guarantors of loans occupy a vulnerable position under California law. While direct borrowers often benefit from California’s robust statutory anti-deficiency framework, those protections are often unavailable for...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

Another Vantage Case, South Carolina style

Knight’s Companies, a septic tank, trucking and concrete block business in sued Vantage Benefits and their principals Jeff and Wendy Richie in Federal District Court in South Carolina, The suit claims that Vantage and the...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

Vantage defaults in first case decision

It didn’t take long for the first decision in a lawsuit against vantage Benefits and its owners when they defaulted. A default judgment was handed down by Judge David C. Godbey of the U.S. District Court for the Northern...more

Pullman & Comley, LLC

Bankruptcy Beat: Default Judgment Is Not Automatic Following Entry Of Default

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On May 12, 2016, the Honorable Julie A. Manning issued a decision in an adversary proceeding entitled Law Office of W. Martyn Philpot, Jr., LLC v. Day, which addressed two issues. The first issue was whether the plaintiff was...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

SEC Files Another Offering Fraud Case

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Offering fraud has long been a staple of SEC enforcement. SEC v. Baldwin, Civil Action No. 2:15-cv-00458 (D. UT. Filed June 25, 2015) is one such action, centered on the acquisition of two defaulted loans, collateralized by...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Promises to Keep—Lender Beware: California Supreme Court Expands Parol Evidence Fraud Exception

In 1935, the California Supreme Court in Bank of America National Trust and Savings Ass’n v. Pendergrass prohibited a borrower from introducing external or parol evidence to demonstrate fraud in connection with an agreement...more

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