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| Countrywide Home Loans Inc. | Gregory O’Gara et al. | U.S. District Court, District of Delaware | na | Plaintiffs seek class certification their suit against a unit of Countrywide Financial Corp. that allegedly inflated foreclosure expenses. | Case: 1:08-cv-00113-UNA, O’Gara v. Countrywide Home Loans Inc. |
| Fremont Investment and Loan and its parent company, Fremont General Corporation | Mass. Attorney General Martha Coakley | Suffolk Superior Court, Massachusetts | na | Massachusetts AG orders former subprime lender Fremont Investment and Loan to halt foreclosure on some of its Massachusetts borrowers. | na |
| Home Savers LLC | Angela Clemens, Attorney Tanya Bullock | Federal trial court in Norfolk, Virginia | na | Plaintiff argues in federal court in Virginia that homeowners who fall prey to rent/buyback schemes did not transfer title of their homes. | Angela Clemmons v. Home Savers LLC |
| LaSalle Bank, NA | David Shearon | New York Supreme Court, Richmond County | na | New York blocks LaSalle Bank from foreclosing on a borrower who committed mortgage fraud because of violations to the state’s predatory lending laws by the originating mortgage broker. | LaSalle Bank, N.A. v. Shearon |
| Philadelphia lenders | na | Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas | na | Philadelphia enacts a moratorium on sheriff sales on owner-occupied properties with adjustable-rate mortgages for 30 days. Mortgage banking lawyers are expected to swiftly intervene. | na |
| Ohio borrower | Wells Fargo Bank | Hamilton County Common Pleas, Ohio | na | Ohio court again delays foreclosure, ruling that Wells Fargo could not foreclose on a home because it did not prove that it had owned the mortgage. | na |
| Bank of America Corp.;The Bear Stearns Companies; Citigroup Inc.; Countrywide Financial Corp.; Credit Suisse; Deutsche Bank Trust Co.; GMAC-RFC; Goldman Sachs Group; Greenwich Capital Markets Inc.; HSBC Holdings PLC IndyMac Bancorp Inc.; J.P. Morgan Chase Co.; Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.; Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.; Morgan Stanley; Washington Mutual Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co., Ameriquest Mortgage Co., Fremont General Corp., NovaStar Financial Inc., Option One Mortgage Corp. | City of Cleveland | Court of Common Pleas, Cuyahoga County, Ohio | na | City of Cleveland alleges that defendants caused the current foreclosure crisis in Cleveland by routinely making loans to borrowers who had no ability to pay them back. | na |
| Countrywide Home Loans Inc. | Sharon Diane Hlll | U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Philadelphia | na | Countrywide denies allegations that denying it tried to “fabricate” documents in the case of Pennsylvania borrower facing foreclosure who filed bankruptcy. | Case No. 01-22574 SHARON DIANE HILL |
| MERS et al. | Owners of four properties in foreclosure | Minnesota Supreme Court | na | MERS alleged to have violated state law by instituting non-judicial foreclosures without recording or registering all mortgage assignments and without listing all assignees in notices of sale. | “AMERICAN HOME MORTGAGE HOLDINGS., a Delaware corporation, et al., Case No. 07-11047(CSS) . Jointly Administered” |
