A fee undivided can stand: U.S. Supreme Court declares that RESPA liability under § 2607(b) requires settlement-service providers to split unearned fees with a third party *

USA - August 2 2012
In Freeman, et al. v. Quicken Loans, Inc., 132 S. Ct. 2034 (2012), a unanimous Supreme Court ruled against Petitioners – three couples who obtained mortgage loans from Quicken – in their effort to establish an expansive theory of liability under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act.

Mind your Ps and Qs, or at least the contents of your account *

USA - April 10 2012
Remember hearing that for a suit on an account, a proper account must be attached to the complaint filed in court? 

Receiver properly appointed by Ohio court for dissolved foreign corporation *

USA - February 28 2011
A Cuyahoga County, Ohio trial court did not abuse its discretion when it appointed a receiver for a "defunct" foreign corporation that the trial court found "persists for the purpose of winding up its affairs in Ohio.

Ohio Court of Appeals pierces the corporate veil in fraudulent conveyance *

USA - November 29 2010
An Ohio Court of Appeals recently ruled that use of a corporation to engage in a fraudulent conveyance resulted in piercing the corporate veil to impose personal liability on the 100% owner, Flagstar Bank, FSB v. Sellers, 12th Dist. No. CA2009-11-287, 2010-Ohio-3951.