Truth in Lending Act

Marcy Kaptur to Banks: “Produce The Note”

Posted on October 12, 2009. Filed under: Foreclosure Defense, Fraud, Loan Modification, Mortgage Audit, Mortgage Fraud, Mortgage Law, Politics, Predatory Lending, Truth in Lending Act, right to rescind | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Fight Club entered popular culture in 1999 when director David Fincher adapted Chuck Palahniuk’s novel into a film that reflected the zeitgeist of modern America with its empty culture, obsession with aesthetic beauty, and slavish under and middle classes.
Warning: Decade-old spoiler coming up.
The film ends with the agents of “Project Mayhem,” protagonist Tyler Durden’s followers, [...]

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No bar to attorneys’ fees under TILA

Posted on September 15, 2009. Filed under: Case Law, Foreclosure Defense, Legislation, Mortgage Audit, Truth in Lending Act, right to rescind | Tags: , , , , , , , |

A car buyer whose damages under the Truth in Lending Act were slashed by the Supreme Court is nevertheless entitled to attorneys’ fees for that portion of his otherwise “successful action,” the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held.
The decision affirms a fee award of more than $80,000 to Bradley Nigh, who claimed Koons [...]

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States gain more power over banks

Posted on June 30, 2009. Filed under: Case Law, Legislation, Mortgage Fraud, Predatory Lending, Truth in Lending Act | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Reporting from Washington — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states could enforce some of their consumer protection laws against national banks, a move that could lead to tougher oversight than federal regulators have provided in recent years.
The 5-4 decision in a case involving attempts by New York’s attorney general to enforce fair-lending laws was [...]

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Melfi v. WMC Mortg. Corp

Posted on June 28, 2009. Filed under: Case Law, Mortgage Audit, Refinance, Truth in Lending Act, right to rescind | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF RHODE ISLAND. Hon. Mary M. Lisi, U.S. District Judge.
Melfi v. WMC Mortg. Corp., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1454 (D.R.I., Jan. 9, 2009)
DISPOSITION:
Affirmed.
COUNSEL: Christopher M. Lefebvre with whom Claude F. Lefebvre and Christopher M. Lefebvre, P.C. were on brief for appellant.
Jeffrey S. Patterson with [...]

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Mortgage Wars

Posted on June 26, 2009. Filed under: Foreclosure Defense, Fraud, Loan Modification, Mortgage Audit, Mortgage Fraud, Mortgage Law, Predatory Lending, Truth in Lending Act, right to rescind | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Iris Martin
My new book, Mortgage Wars, will guide you, step by step, through a war plan of engagement that has been followed by many homeowners who have won their mortgage wars. You will meet them and their attorneys throughout the book. You will learn about how you were defrauded and why; why the government cannot [...]

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Homeowners should be suing lenders!

Posted on June 26, 2009. Filed under: Foreclosure Defense, Fraud, Loan Modification, Mortgage Audit, Mortgage Law, Predatory Lending, Truth in Lending Act, right to rescind | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Homeowners, welcome to Paradise Lost, the fate of millions of financially strapped boomers. A simultaneous loss of life savings, job income and foreclosure has many of them wondering, “Whose America is this, anyway? The bankers got bonuses to defraud us, and our industries and economy are in the pits. We worked for decades to live [...]

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American Consumer & Predatory Lending

Posted on May 16, 2009. Filed under: Legislation, Mortgage Law, Politics, Predatory Lending, Truth in Lending Act | Tags: , , , , , , |

Today President Obama is conducting a town hall meeting in New Mexico focusing on the issue of credit card debt. This is a welcome turn in the national economic conversation from the plight of big institutions and the financial system to what is perhaps the most important part of the story of the Great Recession [...]

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TILA – What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You

Posted on February 19, 2009. Filed under: Case Law, Foreclosure Defense, Loan Modification, Mortgage Audit, Mortgage Fraud, Mortgage Law, Predatory Lending, RESPA, Truth in Lending Act, right to rescind | Tags: , , , , , , |

Pamela D. Simmons
Ten years ago, I represented the borrower in a case that stemmed from a title company’s failure to secure a loan on all of the borrower’s land. (The title company had listed only one of several parcels of land and the lender was unable to non-judicially foreclose on the property as a result.) [...]

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Pro Se Foreclosure Defense

Posted on January 29, 2009. Filed under: Case Law, Foreclosure Defense, Mortgage Law, Truth in Lending Act, right to rescind |

Luis Molina is not a lawyer and he has never played one on TV.
But that didn’t stop him from putting on his best suit, marching into a Miami courtroom this month and going up against an attorney with 30 years of experience to stop a foreclosure proceeding against his family’s home. Molina did such a [...]

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Darling v. Indymac Bank (TILA Audit)

Posted on January 19, 2009. Filed under: Case Law, Mortgage Audit, Mortgage Law, Predatory Lending, RESPA, Truth in Lending Act, Yield Spread Premium, right to rescind | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Darling v. Indymac Bank, F.S.B., No. 06-123-B-W (D.Me. 12/03/2007)

[1]
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MAINE

[2]
Civ. No. 06-123-B-W

[3]
2007.DME.0000264

[4]
December 3, 2007

[5]
JOSEPH AND ROXANNE DARLING, PLAINTIFFS,
v.
INDYMAC BANK, F.S.B., AND WESTERN THRIFT & LOAN, DEFENDANTS.

[6]
The opinion of the court was delivered by: Margaret J. Kravchuk U.S. Magistrate Judge

[7]
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION ON MOTION TO EXCLUDE OR LIMIT EXPERT TESTIMONY

[8]
The [...]

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