Call it buried tax treasure for homeowners: Deep inside the behemoth 654-page bipartisan budget bill recently signed into law by President Trump are little-noticed extensions of key tax-code benefits that expired in 2016, but now can be used for upcoming 2017 tax filings. Potentially the most popular is aimed at millions of buyers and owners […]
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Call it buried tax treasure for homeowners: Deep inside the behemoth 654-page bipartisan budget bill recently signed into law by President Trump are little-noticed extensions of key tax-code benefits that expired in 2016, but now can be used for upcoming 2017 tax filings. Potentially the most popular is aimed at millions of buyers and owners […]
ABA Journal Daily News
ABA Journal Daily News
Mayer Brown isn’t liable for a paralegal’s error that canceled a security interest in a $ 1.5 billion loan to General Motors because the law firm didn’t represent the lenders, according to a federal appeals court. ABA Journal Daily News
In an important decision for creditors, the North Carolina Supreme Court recently clarified the distinction between judicial foreclosure and non-judicial foreclosure by power of sale. In , the Supreme Court held that judicial foreclosure is an ordinary civil action subject to the liberal standard of notice pleading of North Carolina's Rules of Civil Procedure. Foreclosure […]
In a 5-3 decision in Bank of America Corp. et al. v. City of Miami, Florida , the United States Supreme Court held that the City of Miami was an “aggrieved person” authorized to bring suit under the Fair Housing Act for predatory lending by defendant banks to minorities, but remanded the case on the […]
On Monday, in Bank of America Corp. et al. v. City of Miami, Florida , the Supreme Court held in a 5-3 decision that the City of Miami had standing to challenge alleged violations of the Fair Housing Act by lenders. Foreclosure News
In Pacifica L 51 LLC v. New Investments, Inc. , 840 F.3d 1137 , the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that Section 1123 of the Bankruptcy Code provides that a cure amount may include a post-default rate of interest if the underlying loan documents and applicable non-bankruptcy law provide for the payment of post-default […]