A jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia this week handed GSE shareholders their first major win in their effort to recover some of their investment in Freddie and Fannie stocks.
Plaintiffs’ attorney Hamish Hume said he’s optimistic shareholders can persuade a DC jury that FHFA and the Treasury violated shareholders’ contractual rights when they agreed to implement the net worth sweep in 2012.
A New Jersey jury this week agreed with LoanCare’s counterclaim that Freedom Mortgage fraudulently transferred funds when terminating a subservicing agreement.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s funding structure is unconstitutional, a bevy of new amicus briefs argue. But they part ways on how to remedy the problem.
The Supreme Court agreed to take a case this week involving liability under the Fair Credit Reporting Act for a mortgage from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Housing Service.