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California federal district court grants summary judgment for DFPI in lawsuit challenging state’s regulations requiring...

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A California federal district court recently granted the motion for summary judgment filed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) in the lawsuit filed by an advocacy organization seeking to...more

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California Supreme Court Upholds Restrictions on Default Interest Penalties

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Summary - The California Supreme Court denied review of the California 1st District Court of Appeal decision in Honchariw v. FJM Priv. Mortg. Fund, LLC, 83 Cal. App. 5th (2022) resting the holding as current law in...more

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California Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Default Interest Case

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On December 21, 2022, the California Supreme Court denied review of a controversial Court of Appeal decision from earlier last year that prohibited lenders from charging default interest against the principal balance of any...more

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Sheen v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.: The California Supreme Court Delivers a Big Win for Lenders and Loan Servicers

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On March 7, 2022, the California Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated decision in Sheen v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., holding that a lender does not owe a borrower a tort duty of care in considering a loan-modification...more

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California Supreme Court Empowers The DBO And The Courts To Regulate Interest Rates

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Section 22303 of the California Financial Code establishes the maximum interest rates applicable to loans less than $2,500. The preceding section incorporates by reference the general Civil Code provision about contract...more

Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP

For Whom the Bell Tolls - Only a Complete Litigation Stay Extends the Five Year Rule For Bringing a Case to Trial

On February 25, 2016 the Supreme Court of California in Gaines v. Fidelity National Title Insurance Company, et al. (Court of Appeal B244961, Superior Court Case BC361768), affirmed the lower courts’ holdings that a partial...more

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California Supreme Courts Holds that Borrowers Can State a Claim for Wrongful Foreclosure Based on a Void Assignment of the Loan;...

In recent years, the plaintiffs' bar for borrowers resisting foreclosures has pushed the theory that a claim can be stated for wrongful foreclosure where a loan was transferred into a securitized trust after the closing date...more

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