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CINCINNATI - A Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Dec. 6 upheld a ruling denying a couple's motion to vacate dismissal of their Truth in Lending Act (TILA) lawsuit under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(6), finding that a federal judge...

WORCESTER, Mass. - A federal judge in Massachusetts on Dec. 5 denied motions for summary judgment filed by parties in a Fair Debt Collections Act (FDCPA) lawsuit, finding that there is no dispute that a loan servicer is a debt collector under the statute...

DENVER - A federal judge in Colorado on Dec. 2 remanded a consolidated lawsuit challenging U.S. Bank N.A.'s foreclosure of a couple's home after declining to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the plaintiffs' claims (Farlan A. Robertson...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Dec. 2 upheld the dismissal of a man's lawsuit accusing Wells Fargo Bank N.A. and U.S. Bank N.A. of violating the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) and California's unfair competition law...

CINCINNATI - A Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Nov. 26 reversed a federal judge in Ohio's ruling awarding summary judgment to a loan servicer accused of violating the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), finding that the judge...

CHICAGO - A Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Nov. 27 reduced a $3 million punitive damages award entered by a federal jury in Illinois against a loan servicer to $582,000, finding that while punitive damages are allowed by Illinois law for...

ANNISTON, Ala. - A federal judge in Alabama on Nov. 25 granted a loan servicer's motion for partial dismissal of a man's lawsuit, finding that the defendant's alleged failure to timely respond to his qualified written requests (QWRs) that...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Nov. 15 overturned a federal judge in California's ruling denying motions for relief from judgment under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b) filed by leaders of a proposed class...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. - A federal judge in California on Nov. 12 denied a loan servicer's motion to dismiss California unfair competition law (UCL) and other claims in a class action alleging that it conducted "fraudulent assessment and collection...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 18 denied a woman's request to rehear arguments on her request for review of a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals' ruling that affirmed dismissal of her Truth in Lending Act (TILA) lawsuit (Kimberly...

PASADENA, Calif. - A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Nov. 8 affirmed a federal judge in California's ruling that a man's second lawsuit accusing his loan servicer of illegally assigning his mortgage loan to a trust was barred by the...

LOS ANGELES - Reverse mortgage lender American Advisors Group (AAG) "is scamming the nation's senior citizens and their heirs out of millions of dollars" by conducting and charging for numerous property inspections and force-placing property...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 30 said it will consider a woman's request to rehear arguments regarding her petition for a writ of certiorari in a Truth in Lending Act (TILA) suit at its Nov. 15 conference (Kimberly Cox v. Old Republic...

SEATTLE - A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Oct. 28 denied a man's petition for rehearing of an earlier decision in which it found that the plaintiff could not rescind a loan under the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) because it was a residential...

SPOKANE, Wash. - A federal judge in Washington on Oct. 18 denied Wells Fargo N.A.'s motion to strike a couple's class action allegations for a proposed class of Washington consumers who were wrongfully denied a loan modification as a result of...