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Editor: David Reiss
Cornell Law School

July 20, 2015

Monday’s Adjudication Roundup

By Shea Cunningham

Primary Capital Advisors LLC will face suit for selling bad loans to a Residential Capital LLC subsidiary, putting the parent company into bankruptcy, because the contract language was ambiguous. California federal court approved Diversified Lending Group’s $163 million settlement with … Continue reading

July 17, 2015

Friday’s Government Reports Roundup

By Shea Cunningham

The National Housing Conference (NHC) released its report, “Housing and Services Needs of Our Changing Veteran Population”, offers recommendations on how to serve the different groups of veterans, specifically older adult veterans, female veterans, and post 9/11 veterans. The Federal … Continue reading

July 15, 2015

Wednesday’s Academic Roundup

By Shea Cunningham

Mortgage Finance and Technological Change, Robin Döttling & Enrico C. Perotti, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper 15-079/IV. Sustaining Neighborhoods of Choice: From Land Bank(ing) to Land Trust(ing), James J. Kelly Jr., Washburn Law Journal, Vol. 54, No. 3, 2015. President Eisenhower’s … Continue reading

July 14, 2015

The State of Predatory Lending

By David Reiss

The Center for Responsible Lending has posted the final chapter of The State of Lending in America: The Cumulative Costs of Predatory Practices. This chapter’s findings include, Loans with problematic terms or practices result in higher rates of default and foreclosure/ … Continue reading

July 13, 2015

Monday’s Adjudication Roundup

By Shea Cunningham

The New York Court of Appeals overturned a lower court’s dismissal of suit against New York City, the New York Mets’ ownership group and The Related Cos., which had plans to build the Mets’ stadium on public parkland. The Court … Continue reading

July 8, 2015

Wednesday’s Academic Roundup

By Shea Cunningham

Airbnb and the Housing Segment of the Modern ‘Sharing Economy’: Are Short-Term Rental Restrictions an Unconstitutional Taking?, Jamila Jefferson-Jones, Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Vol. 42, 2015. The Use of Tenant Screening Reports and Tenant Blacklisting, Gerald Lebovits & Jen M. … Continue reading

July 7, 2015

The State of the Nation’s Sustainable Housing

By David Reiss

The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University released its The State of the Nation’s Housing 2015 report. I typically focus on the discussion of the mortgage market in this excellent annual report.  Here are some of the mortgage … Continue reading