The state’s highest court affirmed the fundamental and long-established idea that a bank must own the mortgage it’s foreclosing on before it forecloses. The ruling pertained to Wells Fargo and US Bancorp, but investors are hammering all bank financial stocks in reaction.
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Massachusetts Ruling Slams Bank Foreclosure Practices originally appeared on DailyFinance on Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:30:00.
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