A recent decision from the Illinois First District Appellate Court highlights the dangers posed by the technological advances in mobile banking. In West & Lake Check Cashers, LLC v. Propane Pete, LLC, 2023 IL App (2d) 220291 (May 16, 2023) the maker of a check was liable to a currency…
Read More »In an unpublished order, an Illinois Appellate Court held that a lender’s efforts to avoid foreclosure proceedings in Illinois by acquiring ownership of the owner’s limited liability company through court proceedings in Utah, was not res judicata in the borrower’s suit in Illinois state court challenging the legality of the…
Read More »In Hovde v. ISLA Dev. LLC, 51 F.4th 771 (7th Cir. Oct. 24, 2022) a property developer borrowed money from private lenders in 2004 to develop a condominium project. To secure the loan, the developer signed a note and the developer’s principal gave his personal guarantee. The project ultimately failed.…
Read More »A court awarded plaintiff awarded attorney’s fees and costs in an FDCPA action because the defendant attempted to remove the case to federal court where it was clear there was no Article III standing to confer federal jurisdiction. The consumer plaintiff in Currier v. Lawgix Laws., LLC, No. 21-CV-419-PP (E.D.…
Read More »In Leszanczuk v. Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC, 21 F.4th 933 (7th Cir. Dec. 28, 2021), the borrower challenged the legality of a $20.00 property inspection fee that her loan servicer charged following her default. She claimed that because her property was occupied the fee could not be charged. The district…
Read More »On June 21, 2021, the Supreme Court of Hawaii in U.S. Bank Tr., N.A. as Tr. for LSF9 Master Participation Tr. v. Verhagen, No. SCWC-17-0000746 (Haw. June 21, 2021) settled several questions related to the introduction of evidence and business records critical to the mortgage foreclosure process, most of which…
Read More »A Wisconsin district court in Green v. Cenlar FSB, No. 19-cv-1555 (April 19, 2021) granted summary judgment to a loan servicing company for alleged violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”), on the grounds that the servicer conducted a reasonable investigation of a mortgagor’s credit disputes which challenged the…
Read More »On April 30, 2021, the First District Appellate Court struck down Chicago’s Protecting Tenants in Foreclosed Rental Properties Ordinance, better known as the Keep Chicago Renting Ordinance (“KCRO”) finding it is completely preempted by Illinois’ Rent Control Preemption Act (“RCPA”). The decision is Rivera v. Bank of New York, et…
Read More »The appeal in Hunstein v. Preferred Collection and Management Services, Inc., No. 19-14434 (11th Cir. Apr. 21, 2021) arose from the dismissal of a claim that a debt collector violated section 1692c(b) of the FDCPA which prohibits a debt collector from communicating consumers’ personal information to third parties “in connection…
Read More »In Facebook, Inc. v. Duguid, No. 19-511 (U.S. Apr. 1, 2021) the Supreme Court was asked to resolve a dispute over whether a device qualifies as an “automatic telephone dialing system”, or autodialer, under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) if it has the capacity “to store or produce telephone…
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