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Recent Fifth Circuit decision highlights importance of clarity and specificity when discussing terms of loan trade

  • Clifford Chance LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • April 30 2013

A recent Fifth Circuit decision serves as a reminder to loan market participants that they should choose their words very carefully when discussing

Surge in Massachusetts zip code litigation brings new liability concerns for retailers

  • Governo Law Firm LLC
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 2 2013

We recently reported on the landmark ruling in Tyler v. Michaels Stores, Inc., 464 Mass. 492 (2013), where the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Galloway v. Kansas City Landsmen, LLC: court rejects coupon settlement after finding that few class members would be likely to file a claim

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 12 2012

As readers of the blog by now know, I’m always on the lookout for examples of class-action settlements that pay off the lawyers while providing little or no benefit to the members of the putative class

VisaMasterCard interchange fee litigation May 28, 2013 deadline to respond to class action settlement agreement

  • Ropes & Gray LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 12 2013

All entities that accept Visa- or MasterCard-branded credit andor debit cards must decide, on or before May 28, 2013, how to respond to the

Ohio Supreme Court holds mortgage servicing not subject to Consumer Sales Practices Act

  • BuckleySandler LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 20 2013

On May 14, the Ohio Supreme Court held in response to two certified questions from a federal district court that the Ohio Consumer Sales Practices

Shareholder derivative action against Wells Fargo’s directors survives motion to dismiss

  • Chadbourne & Parke LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 5 2012

The United States District Court for the Northern District of California recently denied the motion of Wells Fargo & Company (“Wells Fargo”) to dismiss claims that its directors and officers breached their fiduciary duties to shareholders during the mortgage crisis

Effective compliance program helps investment bank avoid FCPA criminal charges

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 14 2012

When a former Morgan Stanley Managing Director pled guilty recently to a criminal violation of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA"), the effectiveness of the bank's pre-existing anti-corruption compliance program convinced enforcers at the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") and Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") not to charge the bank itself

Sixth Circuit holds that mortgage foreclosure and foreclosure lawyers are subject to the FDCPA

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 1 2013

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently held that mortgage foreclosure actions are "debt collection" under the Fair Debt Collection

Mortgage investor's alleged failure to be licensed could subject company to claims under debt collection statutes

  • Ballard Spahr LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • March 21 2013

A federal court in Maryland recently declined to dismiss a borrower's claims that the owner of a mortgage loan operated as a debt collection agency

Settlement places cloud over long-anticipated Ninth Circuit guidance on statutory damages class actions

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
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  • April 8 2008

The long anticipated Ninth Circuit guidance on the use of statutory damages class actions under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA) and similar privacy statutes could be derailed by a provisional class settlement agreed to in March