LIVINGLIES NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON KINDLE! SEMINAR IN CLEARWATER, FLORIDA NOV 1-2: INFORMATION ON SEMINAR AND BOOKS Thanks to Jeff and Judge Maltese: “At the time that the plaintiff improperly commenced the action, the pathway to the Courthouse should have been blocked. Deutsche Bank had no legal foundation to foreclose a mortgage in which it […]

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Wall Street was not responding to legitimate consumer demand, it was creating an artificial demand simply to create mortgage product to feed its securitization machine and generate big fees for itself. Comment from Reader: “MERS and the Pretender Lenders are seeking the courts to credit them with a touchdown despite the obvious fact that they […]

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It is difficult to imagine anything more obvious than splitting the risk taking core model of Wall Street from the risk averse core model of banking. The dilution of Glass-Steagel over the years and its eventual repeal is exactly how we got into this mess. Coupling that with deregulation and non-transparency created a context in […]

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Thanks to Deontos: Editor’s Note: The logic is simple, basic and the law is old, accepted and “black letter.” No new law is needed to overturn all the foreclosures since 2001, no fancy footwork is required to throw the bums out of court and sue them for the damage they created when they filed false […]

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Editor’s Note: From Home, to Car to Shelter. It’s a common story and a tragedy. But if that is a tragedy then where is the outrage when we add the component that she was probably wrongly dispossessed, that she probably still owns her house and that if she had proper legal representation in a court […]

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Editor’s Note: Anyone who underestimates the importance of Judge Long’s decision in Massachusetts and the combined effect with the Kansas and Arkansas Supreme Court decisions does so at their peril. Lawyers wake up! You are not just missing an opportunity, you are missing an important piece of due diligence that makes you vulnerable to claims […]

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First, you must realize that they are not “Law” with a capital “L”. Other jurisdictions could return opinions that are completely the opposite of the ones we have seen recently. I consider that unlikely. The reasoning is exactly what I have been saying for 2 years when I predicted the title issues, the enforcement issues, […]

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Who is the lender? This is an abstract from the Judge Long decision. Things in red were done by Max Gardner, in bold by Neil. see entire abstract Judge Long Ibanez Massachuseetts Decision Abstract Editor’s Note: The “principal” is the “lender” is the creditor” is the “real party in interest” is the “only party that […]

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Many Thanks to Max Gardner for this contribution: See  entire Case at US Bank v Ibanez Memo of Decision Denying US Bank Mts Oct 14 2009Misc 384283 and Misc 386755 See Neil’s Abstract: judge-long-principal-must-be-disclosed See Boston Globe Article: judge-long-massachusetts-foreclosure-decision-throws-securitization-intermediaries-into-chaos-reo-sales-stopped See what-do-these-case-decisions-mean US Bank v Ibanez. Memo of Decision Denying US BankMts. Oct.14.2009 Misc 384283 and […]

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Kathleen Engel, professor of law at Suffolk University, said the federal government should step in to help states deal with “toxic titles’’ that are clogging up the system from California to Florida. She said until recently few people were scrutinizing paperwork of foreclosing lenders, whose actions are causing problems for borrowers, investors, and municipalities. No […]

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