MAINE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT    Reporter of Decisions MERS v Saunders Law Court decision[1] Decision: Docket: Argued: Decided: Panel: 2010 ME 79 Cum-09-640 June 15, 2010 August 12, 2010 SAUFLEY, C.J., and ALEXANDER, LEVY, SILVER, MEAD, GORMAN, and JABAR, JJ. MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. v. JON E. SAUNDERS et al. The good news is that we have yet another state…[...]

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EDITOR'S NOTE: The shell game continues. While the media picks up stories about “settlements” giving rise to the presumption that Countrywide Home Loans and Bank of America and the rest of the securitization players committed various violations of statutes, duties, rules and regulations, the main point gets lost. Where is this money going and WHY? What is the tacit or…[...]

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EDITOR'S NOTE: I don't know Brad Miller bradmiller.house.gov but I'm sending him a donation. Gretchen Morgenson says he's worth getting to know and I am going to do just that. He's running for re-election in North Carolina, and except for a scant few other members of Congress, he is one of the few that has actually studied the issues confronting 20…[...]

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I'm not sure I deserve credit for this entry from Richard Widmark, but it has a great deal of merit. It should be expanded and I'll publish it. His is a bare outline with not much to show the reasoning behind it. Yet I see glimmers of a solution if anyone would listen. The presenting issue is that none of…[...]

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SHELL GAME CONTINUES. WHO HAS THE BOND? WHO HAS THE RECEIVABLE? WHO HAS THE SECURITY INTEREST? WHO IS GETTING PAID? WHERE ARE THE MONTHLY PAYMENTS GOING? FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC ARE BIG PLAYERS, AS IS THE FEDERAL RESERVE. ARE THEY THE ONES REALLY FORECLOSING UNDER COVER OF SECURITIZATION? EDITOR'S NOTE: Another entry under the category of "I told you…[...]

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NOTE TO BOB HAGER: TOLD YOU SO :) 727 So.2d 302 (1999) Michael M. SOMMA, Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. METRA ELECTRONICS CORP., etc., Appellee/Cross-Appellant. No. 98-1774. District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District. February 12, 1999. Eric W. Ludwig of Eric W. Ludwig, P.A., Altamonte Springs, for Appellant/Cross-Appellee. Melissa Clark Daley of Melissa Clark Daley, P.A., Tampa, for Appellee/Cross-Appellant. ANTOON, J.…[...]

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12debt.html?_r=1&ref=business EDITOR'S NOTE: It is ironic how reality eventually catches up with illusion. While we have been pounding on the issue of principal reduction as the only realistic way out of the recession, and while the financial industry has been busy convincing people that principal reduction is somehow immoral, the contraction of home prices back to reality is having its…[...]

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From Down River Eye In Idaho, you lucked up and got to sock it to them good. Pays to be on your toes when it comes time to fight in court. I say Yes! We should all stop paying them, join the class action and prepare to fight. Safety in numbers, united we stand, divided they pick us off one…[...]

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Great job!  Thank you so much for this commentary.  It will be an excellent tool for us  at the preliminary hearing on August 27, 2010.  An evidentiary hearing may be coming in the immediate future.  Deutsche Bank introduced a fake "original note" during an eleventh hour deposition of one Cynthia Stevens.  She had verified all the Original Documents used to…[...]

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ONE MORE QUESTION TO ASK IN DISCOVERY: WHAT ENTITIES WERE CREATED OR EMPLOYED IN THE TRADING OF MORTGAGE BONDS, CDO'S, SYNTHETIC CDO'S OR TOTAL RETURN SWAPS (NEW TERM)? EDITOR'S COMMENT: LOUISE STORY, in her article in the New York Times continues to dig deeper into the games played by Wall Street firms. You'll remember that the executives of the major…[...]

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