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Northern District of Texas Denies Summary Judgment to Lender on Fiduciary Duty Claim Based on Evidence of Excessive Control

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On February 6, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, recognizing that a lender may assume a role of a fiduciary to a borrower in certain circumstances, denied a summary judgment motion by Wallis...more

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Georgia Appellate Court Rejects All Fee Non-Disclosure Claims Against Multifamily Lender

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On February 21, 2023, the Georgia Court of Appeals awarded multifamily real estate lender ORIX USA (and its affiliates) a complete victory in a decision affirming in part and reversing in part a summary judgment ruling...more

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Rhode Island Court Upholds Usury Penalty (Without Interest) Against Lender

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On April 1, 2022, the Superior Court of Rhode Island, Providence County, granted partial summary judgment in favor of receivership plaintiffs for statutory damages related to usurious loans in an amount equal to all payments...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Further Developments in Mezzanine Foreclosures

The New York State Supreme Court, New York County Commercial Division (the “Court”) decided in U.S. Bank, N.A. v. 342 Property LLC, on February 14, 2022, that a mezzanine lender that is not a party to loan documents that...more

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Georgia Court Grants Summary Judgment on Most Claims Against Multifamily Real Estate Lender

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On February 24, 2022, the Georgia State-wide Business Court issued an order granting in part and denying in part a multifamily real estate lender’s motion for summary judgment on borrowers’ claims arising from fees that the...more

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Eleventh Circuit Broadens Materiality Analysis for Some Cases

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How should a court evaluate the FCA’s materiality requirement when the government’s ability to deny claims is constrained? According to a recent decision from the Eleventh Circuit, the court should “broadly” consider the...more

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Florida Real Property & Business Litigation Report, Volume 13, Issue 28

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Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc., Case No. 19–631 (2020). The federal government cannot exempt itself from the anti-robocall provisions of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, 47 U. S. C....more

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Financial Services Update: Week Ending September 6, 2019

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Financial Services Update - TCPA / ATDS: lender's dialer equipment not an ATDS because it is not capable of generating and dialing random or sequential numbers - Brown v. Ocwen Loan Serv. LLC, No. 8:18-cv-136-T-60AEP (M.D....more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

Not All Deed of Trust Attorney Fee Clauses are Created Equal

Lenders who prevail on claims arising from a deed of trust can always recover their attorney fees from the losing party as long as the deed of trust says something about fee recovery, right? It’s not that simple....more

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North Carolina Supreme Court Adopts "Substantial Competent Evidence" Requirement for Borrowers Asserting "True Value" Defense in...

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On Friday, May 5, 2017, in a major victory for lenders, the North Carolina Supreme Court reversed the North Carolina Court of Appeals’s decision in United Community Bank v. Wolfe. In July 2015, the Court of Appeals decided in...more

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Take It or Leave It

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The Tennessee Court of Appeals recently found that a “take or leave it offer” extended by a lender to a borrower experiencing financial difficulty was not duress. SK Food Corp., et al. v. FirstBank, No....more

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Minnesota State Court Defendants Win Partial Summary Judgment Over RFC and ResCap

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Wednesday, February 1 brought a welcome development for the many correspondent lenders currently defending against claims filed by (or threatened with future lawsuits by) Residential Funding Company (“RFC”) and its...more

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The Moronta Decision in Massachusetts – Determining A Borrower’s Ability To Repay

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A recent decision by the Massachusetts Court of Appeals highlights some of the challenges lenders may face when seeking the dismissal of allegations of unfair and deceptive lending practices in connection with a loan that...more

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Dodd-Frank News: November 2015: Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act Update

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The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was enacted as a measure to promote financial stability and protection for consumers through increased regulation of nearly every aspect of the consumer finance...more

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Real Property, Financial Services & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending September 18, 2015

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REAL PROPERTY UPDATE - Default Judgment/Voidable: because default judgment was merely voidable, rather than void, where complaint upon which judgment was based failed to state a cause of action, Rule 1.540(b) was not...more

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