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Fulbright Alert: Section 8(B) Of RESPA Requires 'Split' Of A Fee Between 2 Or More Persons
Posted on 31 May 2012 by Norton Rose Fulbright

The United States Supreme Court issued a significant opinion for the residential mortgage industry in Freeman v. Quicken Loans, Inc. , No. 10-1042 (May 24, 2012). The Supreme Court ruled that to recover under Section 8(b) of the Real Estate Settlement... Read More

Tags: United States Department of Housing and Urban Development , Fulbright & Jaworski , mortgage industry , United States Supreme Court , Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act , Freeman v. Quicken Loans , HUD , Litigation , RESPA , loans , Real Estate

Mortgage Meltdown Litigation Pays Hundreds Of Millions To Injured Plaintiffs
Posted on 6 Apr 2012 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

The economy seems to be heading at last into recovery territory, and the mortgage crisis that began in 2007 is starting to seem like old news. But the effects of the lax underwriting standards and other questionable loan practices that spawned the crisis... Read More

Tags: Citigroup , mortgage industry , CitiMortgage , settlements , verdicts , Fraud , Massachusetts Bricklayers and Masons Trust Funds , Litigation , Deutsche Alt-A Securities , securities class action , LexisNexis Jury Verdicts and Settlements