Judge Arthur Schack Dead at 71

May 21, 2019

New York State Judge Arthur Schack passed away on May 2nd, aged 71. As phrased by “Summer Chic” “he was nothing short of a mensch which, in Yiddish, is an honorific not bestowed lightly.

“His life was a testament to compassion; evidenced during his sixteen years on the bench in Brooklyn’s State Supreme Court and, in particular, as crusader for the rights of homeowners facing foreclosure. Schack was among a minuscule number of judges who never bought into the notion of simply rubber-stamping evictions [and foreclosures].”

Schack was one of the few judges that were beacon in a dense sea of nonsensical judicial errors. We had Judge Boyco in Ohio and a few others who were eventually silenced or drowned out. Schack saw through the obvious fabrications that were at the heart of most foreclosures. He was merciless in making fun of practices in which all of the major banks were combined into a single Suite 205 in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Yet he was also exacting when it came to homeowners who did not present their cases properly. He understood he was there to rule upon “strikes and balls” of litigation and not to decide the game until it was over.

All homeowners owe him a debt of gratitude because it was only him and a handful of other judges that gave foreclosure defense an aura of credibility.

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