The Seventh Circuit in Burton v. Kohn Law Firm, S.C., 934 F.3d 572 (7th Cir. August 9, 2019) held that because the defendant in a debt collection suit denied any knowledge or association with the debt, he could not provide sufficient evidence that the debt in was a consumer debt…
Read More »In Casillas v. Madison Avenue Associates, Inc., No. 17-3162 (7th Cir. June 4, 2019) the Seventh Circuit affirmed a judgment for a debt collection agency on a FDCPA claim on the basis that while the borrower caught the debt collector in a mistake, it caused no harm to the borrower.…
Read More »In Florence v. Experian Info. Sols., Inc., No. 18-15413 (9th Cir. Aug. 13, 2019) in an unpublished opinion the Ninth Circuit affirmed a judgment for credit reporting agency on a FCRA claim on the basis that the consumer could not identify an inaccuracy credit reporting. Consumers contended that the credit…
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 »An Illinois Appellate Court recently held that Neither the attorney-client privilege nor the rules of professional conduct shield the identity of a lawyer’s third-party client. Thus, in a citation proceeding the lawyer must disclose the identity of the person who retained the lawyer to represent the debtors. In Margules v.…
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 HSBC Bank USA, N.A. as Tr. for Registered Holders of Renaissance Equity Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2007-3 v. Leone, No. 2D17-2851 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. May 3, 2019) a Florida Appellate Court reversed a trail court ruling that because the lenders first foreclosure was voluntarily dismissed it had to…
Read More »In Hunt v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, Nat’l Ass’n, No. 18-11306 (11th Cir. Apr. 25, 2019) a consumer filed a class action suit alleging that his lender violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act by reporting him late even after the lender had commenced foreclosure proceedings. He also contended that after he…
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