A Louisiana bankruptcy case involving a single foreclosure best illustrates the problems with the banks’ outsourcing their mortgage default work to firms like LPS. The result of this money-saving maneuver by banks winds up cost…
Foreclosures nationwide have exposed a swamp of fraudulent documents, but in many parts of Florida, courts have been letting banks ignore the law with impunity. Now, moves by Florida’s Supreme Court and its state bar associatio…
A New Jersey court has invalidated a foreclosure by insisting on a basic concept of due process — that the bank must authenticate the documents it uses to make its case. But in the case of Wells Fargo v. Sandra A. Ford, there …
As multiple lawsuits and SEC actions progress in relation to the nation’s mortgage mess, it’s becoming clear that the misbehaviors of the lawyers involved at all stages were not isolated incidents: The misconduct was systemic, …
A U.S. bankruptcy court judge in New York wants officials from HSBC and Litton Loan Servicing to appear in her courtroom next month — to explain their failure to provide adequate documentation concerning how HSBC wound up cla…