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Companies often monitor or record conversations between their employees and customers for training or quality control purposes. You’ve probably heard messages to this effect yourself. These announcements are meant to satisfy laws that prohibit monitoring...

By Colin B. Willmott and Jonathan L. Schwartz One of the most remarkable and memorable scandals of 2014 involved Donald Sterling, the longtime owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, who received a lifetime ban from the National Basketball Association....

By John Green Companies often monitor or record conversations between their employees and customers for training or quality control purposes. California law prohibits monitoring or recording unless both parties consent. Class actions have been brought...

"On Friday, April 17, 2015, the court will hear oral argument in this case [CA5 No. 15-40238] in the West Courtroom, Room 265, of the John Minor Wisdom United States Court of Appeals Building, 600 Camp Street, New Orleans, LA. The argument will begin...

That was the holding of the Wisconsin Supreme Court in the opinion in Dow Family, LLC v. PHH Mortgage Corporation , 2014 WI 56, [ enhanced version available to lexis.com subscribers ]. The facts of the case are similar to thousands of foreclosure cases...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled, [subscribers can access an enhanced version of this opinion: lexis.com | Lexis Advance ], that Pennsylvania’s recording statute does not require the recording of all conveyances. As a result...

On July 3, 2014, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court issued a ruling in Bank of America, N.A. v. Greenleaf , 2014 ME 89 (Me. July 3, 2014), [ enhanced version available to lexis.com subscribers ], significantly affecting the ability of Mortgage Electronic...

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has held, [ enhanced version available to lexis.com subscribers ], that the failure to create and record written instruments evidencing assignments of mortgages and transfers of promissory...

A class action suit against Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems (MERS) in Pennsylvania will go forward after a federal district court ruled that the state recording statute is constitutional. The court ruled that the statutory recording requirements...

The Illinois Supreme Court has essentially gutted the state’s long-standing eavesdropping law, placing the state into an unprecedented “no-mans-land” for the recording of private conversations. In two separate unconsolidated opinions...