In what is likely to be the last legal wranglings in Fairholme v. FHFA before its long-awaited jury trial begins, Judge Lamberth dealt Fannie/Freddie shareholders a modest defeat.

The CFPB’s 2020 rule, exempting some institutions from Home Mortgage Disclosure Act reporting, was found to be arbitrary and capricious by the D.C. District Court.

Appraisal professionals accused the GSE of using unsigned, boilerplate complaints when referring appraisers to state boards for disciplinary action.

Treasury and FHFA motions for dismissal could be the last gasp in the most prominent shareholder lawsuit challenging the net worth sweep.

Based on insider information about a then-undisclosed data breach at Equifax, Lawrence Palmer and Jerrold Palmer through accomplices had shorted shares of the company.

A plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit claims the Equifax credit score glitch cost her more on auto loan payments.

The proposed consent order with the Pennsylvania-based mortgage lender, if entered by the court, would be the CFPB’s first redlining resolution with a nonbank.

Former employees of the shuttered mortgage lender claim Sprout didn’t provide the required notice of termination and was holding back regular wages.

There’s not much left at non-agency lender Sprout Mortgage but there are plenty of rumors, none of them good. Meanwhile, mortgage fintech Better.com has been adding senior managers.

A New York district court has found that RPM/LendUS used stalling tactics to get out of a merger deal with Entitle Direct Group, a title insurance company.