Two rulings in class action lawsuits filed in North Carolina have handed mortgage securitizers a potentially major victory in the battle over assignee liability. “These two companion cases are really a home run for lenders,” said Donald Lampe, an attorney at the firm of Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, in commenting on the North Carolina Court of Appeals decisions in Skinner v. Preferred Credit and Shepard v. Ocwen Federal Bank.