First quarter of 2023 had some of highest activist shareholder activity ever, say equity investor counsel
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Bail reform in this county didn’t have any impact on new criminal activity, new study says
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NYPD threatens Google with legal action to stop pinpointing police activity through app
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Judge’s suit claims she was retaliated against at work for her husband’s political activity
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Foreclosure activity stays below pre-recession levels nationwide
Properties with foreclosure proceedings started was up 4 percent last quarter but down 19 percent from a year ago, according to a Thursday news release from Attom Data Solutions, a national property database. There were 74,341 properties with foreclosure filings in March, data from Attom's 1Q U.S. Foreclosure Report shows. Foreclosure News
New rule prohibits federal court employees from partisan campaign activity
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U.S. foreclosure activity drops to 12-year low in 2017
ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation's largest multi-sourced property database, has released its Year-End 2017 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows foreclosure filings – default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions – were reported on 676,535 U.S. properties in 2017, down 27 percent from 2016 and down 76 percent from a peak of nearly […]
Tenth Circuit Joins The Fray Regarding Whether Foreclosures Are Debt Collection Activity
With the Tenth Circuit's decision the circuits remain split with the Ninth Circuit and now the Tenth Circuit holding that non-judicial foreclosures are not debt collection activity and the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Circuits holding that they are. Cir., Jan. 19, 2018), Wells Fargo retained foreclosure counsel who sent the consumer an initial communication which […]
Banks ramp up foreclosure activity in Las Vegas
Lenders issued an average of about 500 default notices per month in the fourth quarter last year, up from just 32 a month in the third quarter and 380 per month in the first half of 2017, according to figures from housing tracker Attom Data Solutions. But before you start cheering that Las Vegas' housing […]
Connecticut ranks high among states in foreclosure activity
The worst of the residential foreclosure crisis may be in Connecticut's rearview mirror, but a recent report still ranks the state high among all states for homeowners with troubled mortgages. In 2017, one in 128 properties was in a stage of foreclosure in Connecticut, placing it fifth highest behind New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Illinois, […]