Mortgage industry data released today shows that delinquencies and foreclosures nationwide topped 13 percent in the second quarter of 2009, the highest level ever since the Mortgage Bankers Association began…
A new lawsuit has been filed against Wells Fargo & Co. over its home equity line practices, adding to a growing list of litigation against the mortgage lender for which…
Kenneth Loewinger has written a treatise on landlord-tenant law in Washington, D.C., that is relied on by judges. But the veteran practitioner, who has been a lawyer since 1971, was…
A Florida judge who declared a mistrial earlier this year after a company CEO texted an executive about his testimony during a brief trial break has now imposed additional sanctions…
Updating a more than 200-year-old law against stealing the material in the historic stone walls that line much of New Hampshire’s farmlands and woods, the state’s governor has just signed…
Much has been said about how the so-called securitization of mortgage loans—reselling small fractions of the loans to multiple investors, sometimes again and again—has stymied efforts to encourage lenders to…
When Eric Dare and Doreen Houseman first asked a New Jersey judge to determine which of the two would get custody of their pet pug, Dexter, he treated the toy…
The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee is threatening to revive stalled legislation that would give bankruptcy judges greater power to revise mortgage terms and even reduce the principal…
An apartment management company in Illinois has sued a tenant for libel over a “malicious and defamatory” tweet about the state of her apartment to her 20 followers on Twitter.
Condo buyers at a new building in New York by the Hudson River are citing a single digit error in an offering plan in an effort to rescind their contracts…
In a sad day for a man who made history as the first black graduate of Stetson University’s law school and the first black judge in his county’s circuit court,…
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