County commissioners in Cleveland County, Okla., became the latest plaintiffs to see a recorder-fee lawsuit filed against the Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems dismissed by a judge.The...

More than a dozen banking giants filed a joint petition, urging a U.S. Appeals Court to step in and reverse several rulings by U.S. District Court...

U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington tossed out a proposed class action suit filed by the Hernando County Circuit Clerk, located about 60 miles north of...

A county recorder out of Pennsylvania will be able to pursue her county recording fee case against the Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, the U.S. District Court...

The lawyers representing the former CEO of IndyMac say they've dealt the Securities and Exchange Commission "another major blow" to its civil fraud case against former...

U.S. District Court Judge Reed O'Connor kept the Dallas County District Attorney's case against Merscorp Inc. alive this week when he dismissed five of 12 claims...

A federal judge dismissed two separate residential mortgage-backed securities lawsuits against Deutsche Bank on grounds that the fraud complaints did not meet "certain key respects" of...

A US district judge this week decided not to take action on a lawsuit filed against Countrywide Financial by investors in mortgage-backed securities. The suit claims Countrywide's decision to modify mortgage loans up to $8.4bn violates contracts held by investors in the securitizations where some of those loans live. The investors involved in the suit are asking that Countrywide purchase any loan it intends to modify out of the respective securitization and absorb the losses taken on modifications.

A federal judge in Los Angeles has halted some class-action claims seeking to prevent a merger between Countrywide Financial Corp. and Bank of America, until other similar claims are litigated in the Delaware court system, Reuters reported Monday morning.