In In re: Terrell, No. 19-07629 (April 8, 2020), the Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois found that a condominium association violated the discharge injunction by pursuing post-discharge eviction proceedings based on pre-petition assessments. It ordered the association to pay the debtor’s attorney’s fees and costs as a…
Read More »In response to a foreclosure, the mortgagors in Federal Nat’l Mortgage Ass’n v. Obradovich, No. 14-CV-04664 (N.D. Ill. May 28, 2020) countersued their lender, the mortgage loan servicer and the contractor their lender retained to manage the winterization of the property claiming a sub-contractor botched the job and caused extensive…
Read More »On June 2, 2020, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) issued a final rule (“Rule”) to quell the uncertainty created by the Second Circuit decision in Madden v. Midland Funding, LLC, 786 F.3d 246 (2d Cir. 2015) for national banks and federal savings associations (“banks”) engaged in…
Read More »The Seventh Circuit in Denan v. Trans Union LLC, No. 19-1519 (7th Cir. May 11, 2020) was asked to address what “accurate reporting” means under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”). It answered that a credit reporting agency (“CRA”) was obliged only to follow reasonable procedures to assure maximum possible…
Read More »On May 13, 2020, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) issued two FAQs providing guidance to depository and non-depository financial institutions (“institution”) on the ability to take expedited action to assist customers who experience hardship due to the COVID-19 emergency. The guidance is provided in connection with deposit accounts (checking,…
Read More »At issue in Municipal Trust and Savings Bank v. Moriarty, et al. 2020 IL App (3d) 190016 (May 4, 2020) was whether the defendant-mortgagor in a foreclosure action was properly served such that a foreclosure judgment was void for lack of jurisdiction. The appellate court affirmed the ruling of the…
Read More »The mortgagor, in U.S. Bank, Nat’l Ass’n as Tr. for Truman 2016 SC Title Tr. v. Reinish, 2020 IL App (2d) 190175 (April 21, 2020), asserted as a defense to a judgment of foreclosure that the mortgagee did not provide her with a notice of acceleration prior to foreclosing. The…
Read More »Last Updated: April 29, 2020 To Our Friends and Business Partners: Per the Governor’s April 1, 2020 Order, the execution of all eviction orders is suspended through April 30, 2020. Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced on April 23, 2020 that he will extend Illinois’ stay-home order for another 30 days…
Read More »An Illinois appellate court condemned the practice of “sharp bidding” in First Merit Bank, N.A., v. McEnery, 2020 IL App (3d) 180287 (April 14, 2020). Where the terms of the sale of assets to satisfy a judgment require each side to submit their highest and best offers in writing by…
Read More »On April 3, 2020, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the State Banking Regulators (collectively the “agencies”) issued a joint statement (“Statement”)…
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