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Volume 23 - Number 2

January 23, 2012

Court Affirms Borrower Testimony Trumps Rebuttable Presumption

In Marr v. Bank of America, N.A., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has affirmed that borrower testimony alone can overcome the Truth in Lending Act’s “rebuttable presumption” that a borrower has received two notices of his right to rescind a refinance transaction, despite a written acknowledgement by the borrower to the contrary. In this case, the borrower argued that he wasn’t given two right-to-rescind notices as required under TILA, even though he had signed a document indicating he had. He said he had filed away and left undisturbed the documents he received when ...

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