Fla 4th DCA Gets It Right on Article 3 UCC

Mar 25, 2020

Finally! A court takes its time and analyzes the chain and discovers what? Insufficient proof of standing and ERROR on the part of the trial judge in preventing even a third party purchaser from introducing evidence that the endorsement of the note was a legal nullity.

This is bad news for the foreclosure mills who receive their instructions from servicers who receive their instructions from attorneys who represent the investment banks. Up until this decision in Florida they have been able to use a series of apparently facially valid documents to create the false appearance that the chain was real and proper.

See Cox v LSF9 Trust, US Bank as Trustee- 4th DCA Florida Holds that everyone in chain must have standing to enforce -DOC031220

Every party in the chain from lender to present claimant must have had standing and rights of a holder in order to have its “indorsement” be legally effective.

Otherwise the endorsement of the note is NOT a blank endorsement but rather an Anomalous endorsement — basically equivalent to a wild deed.

The case does not address other issues in securitization but it is a strong and persuasive case, step by step on Article 3 UCC as applied to enforcement of notes.

My opinion, of course, is that the authority to enforce a note may be evidence of authority to enforce the mortgage and raises presumptions about ownership of the debt. But if the borrower rebuts that presumption then the Plaintiff foreclosure mill must actually prove its case with evidence instead of presumptions starting with the fact that the Plaintiff exists and possesses a legal claim for repayment of an unpaid debt.

Bottom Line: The foreclosure mills can’t prove that anyone has a legal claim for repayment of an unpaid debt. They can prove that the unpaid debt exists but they can’t prove that the claim seeks to achieve repayment because, in securitization cases, the claimant is never the legal owner of the debt — i.e., the party who paid value in exchange for ownership of the debt and therefore the party who is injured by nonpayment.

BTW there is no law that the style of a case must start with the name of the first Defendant or the name as ordered by the Foreclosure Mill. I suggest changing the paradigm by refusing to refer to the Plaintiff as US Bank and instead referring to LSF9 Trust, U.S. Bank as trustee or LSF9 certificate holders depending upon how the foreclosure mill worded it.

Don’t say LSF9 certificate holders and then add US Bank as trustee because you are then directly admitting an untrue statement, to wit: that US Bank is a trustee for the certificate holders. It isn’t. US Bank has a relationship with one or more investment banks but absolutely no relationship with the investors or certificate holders who are never beneficiaries under the trust.

Assuming there is some technical reason that the trust can be arguably said to exist, it does not possess a claim to enforce the debt unless (a) it is the owner of the debt or (b) it possesses the original note endorsed by a holder. Under (b) they can foreclose unless the presumption of ownership of the debt is sufficiently challenged such that the presumption no longer applies.

Once the presumption does not apply then the claim still exists and judgement can be entered only if it is proven without reference to the presumption — i.e. with relevant evidence consisting of documents and supporting foundation testimony,.

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