- HSBC facing suit for breaching its duties as trustee for 271 residential mortgage-backed securities trusts.
- The US Supreme Court considered whether debtors should have an absolute right to appeal denial of proposed bankruptcy plan after three circuit courts have found that debtors can automatically can appeal, while in other jurisdictions, the bankruptcy judge must permit the appeal.
- BNP Paribas Mortgage Corp. suit from 2009 regarding Bank of America’s mishandling of hundreds of millions of dollars of mortgage-backed notes issued by Taylor Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp. finally settles.
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Monday’s Adjudication Roundup
- BofA has asked a PA federal judge to dismiss a class action RICO suit alleging kickbacks from overpriced mortgage insurance claiming it is the same suit that was dismissed as time-barred by Third Circuit in October.
- Deloitte is potentially facing $1.3 billion plus punitive damages to Freddie Mac for negligently auditing work for Taylor Bean, a mortgage lender with a massive employee fraud.
- Circuit split continues on whether and when lenders are responsible for development project failures when the Seventh Circuit ruled that the lender’s insurers would not cover the emergence of contractor liens in a failed $118 million real estate development.