|
Defendant
|
Plaintiff
|
Court
|
Amount
|
Overview
|
Case Title |
Case Number
|
Date Filed |
Link to Story |
| Bank of America |
Beals |
U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey |
n/a |
A homeowner sued BoA in an attempt to stop foreclosure. |
Beals v. Bank of America, N.A. |
No. 10-CV-05427 |
10/19/2010 |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationForeclosures121210.asp |
| Bank of America |
Dwayne and Melisa Davis |
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana |
n/a |
Class action certification sought in case alleging faulty affidavits. |
Davis v. Bank of America |
n/a |
10/19/2010 |
www.mortgagedaily.com/MctLawsuitInFc102110.asp |
| Bank of America |
Michael D. Carlson |
n/a |
n/a |
Plaintiff requesting that 2008 foreclosure undone. |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
www.mortgagedaily.com/MctForeclosuresGses113010.asp |
| Bank of America Corp., BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP, Recon Trust Co. |
Nevada Attorney General’s office |
Superior Court of Nevada, Clark County |
n/a |
States are suing BoA for failing to help homeowners rewrite their loans as promised before foreclosing on them. |
Nevada v. Banc of America Corp. |
No. 10-631557 |
12/17/2010 |
www.mortgagedaily.com/MctForeclosureProbe122810.asp, www.mortgagedaily.com/LawsuitBoaNv121710.asp |
| Brandon Middleton, Stephanie Middleton |
Simmons First National Bank |
Court of Appeals of Arkansas |
n/a |
Motion by lender to set aside foreclosure sale denied. |
Simmons First Nat’l Bank v. Middleton |
n/a |
10/29/2010 |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationForeclosures121210.asp |
| Castle Point Mortgage |
Stephen and Susan Yowell |
n/a |
$450,000 |
Plaintiffs allege that the defendants violated the Truth in Lending Act when they foreclosed on their home. |
Yowell v. Castle Point Mortgage |
n/a |
n/a |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationForeclosures121210.asp |
| Citigroup, Inc. |
Brian Costigan |
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York |
n/a |
Costigan alleges that Citigroup improperly was attempting to foreclose. |
Costigan v. Citigroup Inc. |
No. 1:2010cv08776 |
11/19/2010 |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationForeclosures121210.asp |
| Countrywide Financial Corporation, Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., Full Spectrum Lending, Inc., Bank of America Corporation, Bank of America, N.A., BAC Home Loans Servicing LP, Recontrust Company, N.A., Black Corporations 1-10. |
State of Arizona ex rel. Terry Goddard, Attorney General |
Superior Court of the State of Arizona for the County of Maricopa |
n/a |
Suit regarding loss mitigation. |
Arizona v. Countrywide Fin. Corp. |
No. CV2010-033580 |
12/17/2010 |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LawsuitBoaAz121710.asp |
| Countrywide Home Loans |
Dwayne and Melisa Davis |
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana |
n/a |
Plaintiffs filed suit seeking class-action status based on perjured, “robo-signed” affidavits which led to the foreclosure of their home by Bank of America. |
Davis v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. |
No. 10-01303 |
10/19/2010 |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationForeclosures121210.asp, www.mortgagedaily.com/MctLawsuitInFc102110.asp |
| Creston King, Amy King |
CitiMortgage Inc. |
n/a |
$106,421 |
Judge rules that Fannie Mae, current owner of REO, to go through mitigation. |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
www.mortgagedaily.com/MctForeclosureFannie120810.asp |
| Donna Shebetich |
United States of America |
U.S. District Court |
$1,000,000 |
Indictment of Metropolitan Savings Bank VP who allegedly underreported delinquency. |
n/a |
n/a |
10/5/2010 |
www.mortgagedaily.com/MctMetropolitan100610.asp |
| GMAC Mortgage LLC |
Class Action |
U.S. District Court-Dist. of Maine |
Injunction |
Mortgage customers sought an injunction prohibiting GMAC from continuing foreclosure sales. |
Archibald et al. v. GMAC Mortgage LLC |
2:2010cv00458 |
11/4/2010 |
www.mortgagedaily.com/mctforeclosuresgmac112610.asp, www.mortgagedaily.com/MctForeclosureGmacme121310.asp
www.mortgagedaily.com/MctForeclosuresGmac110910.asp |
| GMAC Mortgage LLC |
Maine Attorney General Janet Mills |
n/a |
n/a |
Agreement reached to stop foreclosures. |
Archibald et al. v. GMAC Mortgage LLC |
2:2010cv00458 |
11/4/2010 |
www.mortgagedaily.com/mctforeclosuresgmac112610.asp |
| GMAC Mortgage, LLC; Ally Financial Inc. |
State of Ohio; Richard Cordray |
Court of Common Pleas, Lucas County, Ohio |
n/a |
Defendants accused of using fraudulent affidavits and documents in judicial foreclosure proceedings. |
Ohio v. GMAC Mortgage, LLC |
CI0201006984 |
10/6/2010 |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LawsuitOhVsGmac100610.asp, www.mortgagedaily.com/LawsuitGmacOhio100610.asp |
| HSBC Finance |
Stanley Williams |
n/a |
$400,000 |
Lawsuit filed alleging improperly filed documents. |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
www.mortgagedaily.com/MctLawsuitForeclosure121310.asp |
| JP Morgan Chase Bank |
Flint |
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan |
n/a |
Suit regarding a foreclosure. |
Flint v. JP Morgan Chase Bank |
No. 10-12532 |
11/18/2010 |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationForeclosures121210.asp |
| Judge Arthur N. Votolato |
Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC & PHH Mortgage Corp. |
U.S. Bankruptcy Court; District of Rhode Island |
n/a |
Mortgage servicers are challenging a loss-mitigation program for lenders and debtors at risk of foreclosure, instituted by the Bankruptcy Court. |
In re: Alberto Sosa |
n/a |
n/a |
www.mortgagedaily.com/mctforeclosureri112910.asp |
| Judge Arthur N. Votolato |
Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC & PHH Mortgage Corp. |
U.S. Bankruptcy Court; District of Rhode Island |
n/a |
Mortgage servicers are challenging a loss-mitigation program for lenders and debtors at risk of foreclosure, instituted by the Bankruptcy Court. |
In re: Lawton |
n/a |
n/a |
www.mortgagedaily.com/mctforeclosureri112910.asp |
| LaSalle Bank, N.A. |
Washington L. Sanchez |
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District |
n/a |
LaSalle Bank is defending its attempt to foreclose on a Florida home. |
Sanchez v. LaSalle Bank, N.A. |
No. 3D09-2095 |
11/22/2010 |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationForeclosures121210.asp |
| Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and Merscorp; GMAC Mortgage LLC; Residential Accredit Loans, Inc.; Residential Funding Company, LLC; Duetsche bank National Trust Company; Nationstar Mortgage; Aurora Loan Services; BAC Loan Services; CitiMortgage; US Bank; LSR Processing; DOCX; Lender Processing Services; Lerner Sampson & Rothfuss; Manley Deas Kochalski PLLC; Dinsmore & Shol, LLP; Reisenfeld & Associates, LPA; and Middleton & Reutlinger |
Elizabeth Foster; John Foster; Connie Wells; Royce Wells; Augusta Mason; Brian Mason; Sherill Moody; Mark Moody; Charlotte A. Woodward |
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky Louisville Division |
n/a |
Defendants accused of falsifying documents in foreclosure proceedings. |
Foster et al v. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. et al |
3:2010cv00611 |
9/28/2010 |
www.mortgagedaily.com/MctLps100610.asp |
| Premier Mortgage Services of Washington Inc. |
Christa L. Albice, Bart A. Tecca, Karen L. Tecca |
Court of Appeals of Washington, Division Two |
$115,500 |
Appellate court set aside foreclosure. |
Christa L. Albice, a married woman, and Bart A. Tecca and Karen L. Tecca, husband and wife v. Premier Mortgage Services Of Washington, Inc. et al |
No. 39265-8-II |
9/28/2010 |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationForeclosures121210.asp |
| Paul Bialobrzeski |
Deutsche Bank National Trust Company |
Appellate Court of Connecticut |
n/a |
State appellate court reversed a trial court’s decision to throw out a borrower’s defenses to the foreclosure of his house. |
Deutsche Bank Nat’l Trust Co. v. Bialobrzeki |
No. AC 29884 |
11/21/2010 |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationForeclosures121210.asp |
| U.S. Bank, N.A. |
Guiseppe Servedio |
District Court of Appeal of the State of Florida, Fourth District |
n/a |
Florida court rules that mortgage servicers cannot finalize a foreclosure without an original note. |
Servedio v. U.S. Bank, N.A. |
No. 4D10-1898 |
10/27/2010 |
www.mortgagedaily.com/MctForeclosuresFl102810.asp |
| Vascik |
Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. |
Court of Appeals of Ohio, Sixth District |
n/a |
Appeals court reversed a judgment of the Lucas County Court of C. in a foreclosure. |
Mortgage Elec. Registration Sys., Inc. v. Vascik |
No. L-09-1129 |
10/30/2010 |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LitigationForeclosures121210.asp |
| Wells Fargo |
Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Nevada, New Jersey, Texas, and Washington |
n/a |
2,000,000,000 |
Wells Fargo entered into “assurance agreements” with the states in order to continue its loan modification program. |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
www.mortgagedaily.com/SettlementWells122010.asp |
| Wells Fargo & Co.; Wells Fargo Home Mortgage; and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., doing business as America’s Servicing Co., Defendants. |
Keith and Ying Forster, Sonya Foster, Gregory McNutt, Wendy Scribner, Michelle Wilkinson, Dana Moody, Florin Moldovan, John Jones and Martine Sonnon-Jones, Ralph and Nancy Iannuzzi, Bryan Weisz, Alma Quezada, and Todd and Lisa Phillips, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated |
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California |
$5,000,000 |
Wells Fargo accused of inducing borrowers to default as the servicer attempted to collect substantial late charges. |
Forster, et. al v. Wells Fargo & Co., et. al |
3:2010cv05321 |
11/23/2010 |
www.mortgagedaily.com/LawsuitWells112410.asp |
