A federal judge has vacated a punitive damages award against Bank of America that gave $ 20 million to the University of California's five law schools in a wrongful foreclosure case. The five law schools will now receive $ 150,000 as a result of a bank settlement with the plaintiffs, Erik and Renee Sundquist, the Recorder reports.
ABA Journal Daily News
ABA Journal Daily News
Civil rights groups and election officials fielded thousands of reports of voting irregularities across US, with voters complaining of broken machines, long lines and untrained poll workers improperly challenging Americans' right to vote. The loudest of those complaints came from Georgia, where issues of race, ballot access and election fairness have fuelled the contest between…
California's record poverty and real-estate bubble are creating a “wheel-estate” boom of people with good jobs living in their cars Extreme housing prices in California — driven by a combination of speculation, favorable legal/tax positions for landlords, foreclosures after the 2008 crisis, and an unwillingness to build public housing — has created vast homeless encampments,…
David Michael Jones can't resist describing the house he bought a year ago in a suburb of Killeen, Texas – it's 2,800 square feet, set up on a hill, with a formal dining room and an enormous master bedroom that includes a bathroom big enough to do cartwheels in. “To me, I'm on top of…
