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My exercise includes all areas of customer safety law, which include loan foreclosures defense, predatory lending, loan broking fraud, domestic improvement claims, and other client claims. Recent case victories include: Fed. Nat l. Home Loan Mtge. Corp. v. Schwartzwald, (Oct. 31, 2012) 2012-Ohio-5017. This case is a big victory for Ohio house owners. It will help stage the playing discipline for house owners, and it provides hope to those who've previously misplaced their home to foreclosure. The Supreme Court ruled that a financial institution need to have the proper to enforce the be aware and mortgage at the day it documents its foreclosure case. If it doesn t have the right to enforce at that time, the trial courtroom does not have jurisdiction to listen the case, and the case should be disregarded. This also method that during long-closed foreclosures instances in which the bank filed fit earlier than it obtained the right to put into effect the word and loan, any judgment granted to the bank is void, and can be attacked with the aid of the house owner. Wallace v. Washington Mutual Bank, et al. (June 26, 2012) 6th Circuit Court of Appeals Case No. 10-3694 - The sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the district court dismissal of a declare beneath the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act against a regulation workplace that misrepresented the prison fame of its purchaser whilst it filed a foreclosures case. The regulation office had asserted inside the criticism that its consumer turned into the holder of the observe when that illustration become false. The sixth Circuit held that such conduct should guide a motive of action underneath the FDCPA. FV-I, Inc. v. Lackey, 10th Dist. Franklin No. 13-AP-0983, 2014-Ohio-4944 - Obtained reversal of precis judgment in a foreclosures motion under the obvious mistakes doctrine. The trial court docket granted the foreclosing lender a judgment in excess of the face quantity of the be aware being sued on. The court docket of appeals referred to that Given the stakes in a foreclosures action, this sort of errors seriously affects the fundamental equity and public popularity of the judicial › ›
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- Consumer Law
- Class Action, Lemon Law
- Real Estate Law
- Commercial Real Estate, Condominiums, Easements, Eminent Domain, Homeowners Association, Land Use & Zoning, Mortgages, Neighbor Disputes, Residential Real Estate, Water Law
- Appeals & Appellate
- Civil Appeals, Federal Appeals
- Collections
- Foreclosure Defense
- Predatory Lending
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Graduation year: 1987
Graduation year: 1983
