The borrowers in U.S. Bank Nat’l Assn. v. Miller, 2020 IL App (1st) 191029 (March 20, 2020) appealed from a judgment dismissing their counterclaim in a foreclosure proceeding to rescind their mortgage under the Truth in Lending Act (“TILA”). In a case of first impression, an Illinois appellate affirmed holding…
Read More »In Preston v. Midland Credit Management, Inc., No. 18-3119 (Jan. 21, 2020), the Seventh Circuit reversed a district court’s order of dismissal, holding that the language “TIME SENSITIVE DOCUMENT” on the envelope of a dunning letter violated § 1692f(8) of the FDCPA. In doing so, it refused to recognize the benign‐language…
Read More »In First Bank of Highland Park v. Sklarov, 2019 IL App (2d) 190210 (Sept. 18, 2019), following the borrower’s default, the bank moved to be appointed a mortgagee in possession. The borrower opposed the motion asserting the property was residential real estate and he was therefore presumptively entitled to maintain…
Read More »In Taylor v. Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC, 2019 IL App (1st) 172652 (July 25, 2019), the Plaintiffs brought an action against the lender who foreclosed a mortgage on their home in a prior proceeding. Plaintiff’s contended the foreclosure was wrongful and the lender had committed fraud upon the court. For…
Read More »In an “ignoble attempt to discredit the foreclosure judgment” the mortgagor in U.S. Bank, Nat’l Ass’n as Tr. for Credit Suisse First Bos. CSFB 2005-11 v. Laskowski, 2019 IL App (1st) 181627 (July 16, 2019), belatedly sought to avoid the foreclosure by attacking the decree on behalf of an LLC…
Read More »Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal reversed a trial court’s denial of reciprocal attorney’s fees to borrowers who were sued for foreclosure after the bank voluntarily dismissed the action. The bank in Venezia v. JP Morgan Mortg. Acquisition Corp., No. 4D18-1278 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. May 22, 2019) filed a…
Read More »A Florida Appellate Court in Bullock v. Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC, No. 1D18-3130 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. June 28, 2019) upheld a foreclosure judgment in a second foreclosure which alleged a later default date than the prior action which the servicer lost. The court affirmed the holding that the second…
Read More »In Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB v. Zarkhin, 2019 IL App (2d) 180439 (March 26, 2019) the Plaintiff filed a foreclosure on property owned by mortgagors, alleging in part that its mortgage, although recorded later, had priority over the defendants’ mortgage because it was intended and used to pay off…
Read More »The facts of Obduskey v. McCarthy & Holthus LLP, No. 17-1307 (U.S. Mar. 20, 2019) are straight-forward. The defendant lawyers were hired to carry out a nonjudicial foreclosure on a Colorado home owned by the petitioner. The lawyers sent a debt validation notice to the petitioner who disputed the debt.…
Read More »In Grant v. Citizens Bank, N.A., 5D17-726 (Dec. 26, 2018) a Florida Appellate Court retreated from its prior rulings that a lender could not recover in a foreclosure amounts that accrued more than five years prior to the filing of the lawsuit. Nevertheless, it held that the trial court erred…
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