Wells Fargo suffered a big legal setback after a federal judge denied its request to enforce a consent judgment under last year’s landmark $25 billion servicing settlement to prevent a New York lawsuit from proceeding. Judge Rosemary Collyer of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia rejected Wells Fargo’s argument that the new government suit filed in Manhattan district court was improper because it violated the consent judgment against Wells Fargo and flies in the face of the judgment’s “liability release” provision. Wells Fargo argued that the allegations in a civil mortgage fraud suit filed by ...