October 3, 2013
Ohio Court Dismisses Plaintiff’s Claim That Defendant Lacked Standing to Foreclose
The Ohio court in Turner v. Lerner, Sampson & Rothfuss, 776 F.Supp.2d 498 (2011) granted in part and denied in part the defendant’s motion to dismiss. The plaintiffs alleged that defendant [Lerner] engaged in the widespread practice of filing and prosecuting mortgage foreclosure actions, although many of Lerner’s clients lacked proper standing to sue.
The United States District Court, N.D. Ohio considered the plaintiff’s claims that there were violations of FDCPA and Ohio unfair practices act violations, based on the law firm’s filing of foreclosure lawsuits where its clients allegedly lacked proper standing because the law firm client’s employees executed allegedly fraudulent assignments of mortgages from non-party MERS.
In following recent Ohio case law, the court dismissed the case due to the plaintiff’s lack of standing the validity of the assignments of mortgages. The court noted that it was generally accepted law that a litigant who is not a party to an assignment lacks standing to challenge assignment of that note.
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