December 23, 2014
Reiss on Ocwen Settlement
Law360 quoted me in New York’s Ocwen Deal Sets Tough Precedent For Regulators (behind a paywall). It reads in part, New York regulators ordered Ocwen Financial Corp. to pay $150 million in hard cash and barred the company from claiming … Continue reading
December 23, 2014 in Upstream litigation | Permalink | No Comments
December 3, 2014
Reiss on Shakespearean GSE Litigation
Fundweb quoted me in Stateside: My Kingdom for a House. It reads in part, History repeats itself. In 1483, Richard III seized the British crown from his 13-year-old nephew on a trumped up legal sophistry. One justification was to prevent … Continue reading
December 3, 2014 in Upstream litigation | Permalink | No Comments
November 18, 2014
Carney, Epstein, Macey & Reiss on GSE Litigation
I was on an interesting panel today on the state of the Fannie/Freddie shareholder litigation. Judge Lamberth’s ruling in Perry Capital LLC v. Lew et al. was bad news for the plaintiffs in all of the shareholder suits. The panel … Continue reading
November 18, 2014 in Upstream litigation | Permalink | No Comments
November 5, 2014
GSE Nationalization and Necessity
Nestor Davidson has posted Nationalization and Necessity: Takings and a Doctrine of Economic Emergency to SSRN. This essay will be of interest to those following the Fannie/Freddie shareholder litigation. The abstract reads, Serious economic crises have recurred with regularity throughout … Continue reading
November 5, 2014 in Upstream litigation | Permalink | No Comments
October 20, 2014
Reiss on Catching FIRREA
Inside ABS & MBS quoted me in Experts: New AG Likely to Continue Aggressive Use of FIRREA Against Industry, Individual Executives Targeted (behind a paywall). It reads in part, Mortgage industry executives should be aware and expect continued – and … Continue reading
October 20, 2014 in Upstream litigation | Permalink | No Comments
October 17, 2014
The Other GSE Conservatorship Lawsuit
While there has been a lot of attention over Judge Lamberth’s ruling on the shareholders’ cases regarding Fannie and Freddie’s conservatorships, much less has been given to Judge Cooke’s dismissal of Samuels v. FHFA (No. 13-22399 S.D. Fla. ) (Sept. … Continue reading
October 17, 2014 in Upstream litigation | Permalink | No Comments
October 1, 2014
Big Decision in GSE Litigation
Regular readers of this blog know that I have written a lot about the shareholder suits arising from the conservatorships of Fannie and Freddie. One of the main cases is being presided over by Judge Lamberth in the District Court … Continue reading
October 1, 2014 in Upstream litigation | Permalink | No Comments
