In In re Sunnyslope Hous. Ltd. P’ship, 859 F.3d 637, 640 (9th Cir. 2017), as amended (June 23, 2017), the creditor held a lien on property which pursuant to certain covenants in debtor’s loan agreements was required to be used as low income housing. The requirement that the property be…
Read More »A debt collector who files a time-barred proof of claim is not engaging in false or deceptive conduct as defined by the FDCPA, according to a recent decision by the US Supreme Court. In Midland Funding, LLC v. Johnson, 16-348, (May 15, 2017) the debtor filed a Chapter 13 Bankruptcy…
Read More »The Eleventh Circuit in Helman v. Bank of America, 15-13672, – Fed. Appx.– (11th Cir. April 12, 2017) concluded that the least sophisticated consumer would not be misled that it was personally liable for a discharged debt where the monthly statements sent by the debtor’s bank contained a statement that…
Read More »U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois held in Hahn v. Anselmo Lindberg Oliver LLC, 1:16-cv-06908 (Mar. 3, 2017) that the foreclosure of real estate is not an attempt to collect a debt under the FDCPA and a law firm that proceeds with foreclosure despite a pending bankruptcy…
Read More »An Illinois appellate court in PNC Bank, v. Wilson, No. 2-15-1189, 2017 IL App (2d) 151189 (March 2, 2017) determined that a mortgage servicer’s failure to strictly comply with the HUD regulations requiring the servicer to request a face to face meeting with the mortgagor prior to instituting a foreclosure,…
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