Afternoon Briefs: Boy Scouts of America agrees to $850M settlement; 1st Circuit rejects ERA suit
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National Geographic’s ‘Trafficked’ looks at the most dangerous drug in America
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Bank of America stops U.S. foreclosures for review
Bank of America on Friday halted foreclosures on homes across the country so it could review paperwork in tens of thousands of cases for flaws, expanding a crisis at a perilous time for the housing market. The move came as PNC Financial Services became the fourth major bank to announce that it would stop foreclosures […]
RENOVATE AMERICAovate America Welcomes Kroll Analysis of PACE Market
Renovate America, the nation's largest provider of Property Assessed Clean Energy financing, today welcomed a new analysis by Kroll Bond Rating Agency that identifies several positive developments in the PACE industry and says concerns about foreclosures on properties with PACE assessments “may be overstated.” Kroll, which has rated the senior tranches of all 22 public […]
How Lawyer Moms of America quickly gained 10,000 members to oppose family separations
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Bank of America destroyed documents as borrowers tried to save their homes, suit says
A new lawsuit says Bank of America misled borrowers trying to hang onto their homes, pushing them into foreclosure while it enriched itself off a federal mortgage-modification program. The suit, filed this month in federal court in Charlotte, is the latest to allege the Charlotte-based company abused homeowners seeking to reduce their mortgage payments through […]
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Defendant-Appellee GEORGE P. KLIKA, aka GEORGE KLIKA, Third-Party Plaintiff/Appellant, v. ASSURANT, INC. Foreclosure News
Bank of America, National Association, etc., appellant, v. Cecil Wheatley, et al., defendants.
RADIX VALERIE BRATHWAITE NELSON, JJ.Parker Ibrahim & Berg, New York, N.Y. , for appellant. Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County , entered April 12, 2016. Foreclosure News
US is an outlier on death penalty attitudes in North America, ACLU attorney says
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New York Foreclosures At All-Time High, America At All-Time Low
It's quite the opposite, as foreclosure auctions are at an 11-year high, according to a new report by ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation's largest multi-sourced property database. ATTOM Data Solutions released its Year-End 2017 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows foreclosure filings – default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions – were reported […]