United States Second Circuit

The district court erred in granting defendants' motion for judgment on the pleadings where plaintiffs sufficiently alleged a cause of action when they asserted that defendants' billing practice of marking up the fee for settlement services violated the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/10/2004
• Published 09/10/2004

Judges

• SACK, Circuit Judge., Before:  JACOBS, SACK, and RAGGI, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael C. Spencer, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP (Susan M. Greenwood;  Craig H. Johnson, Lon D. Packard, Joann Shields, Packard, Packard & Johnson, Salt Lake City, UT;  of counsel), New York, NY, for Appellants., Christine N. Kohl, U.S. Department of Justice (Michael J. Singer;  Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General;  Roslynn R. Mauskopf, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York;  Richard A. Hauser, Peter S. Race, Joan L. Kayagil, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development;  of counsel), Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae the United States.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas M. Hefferon, Goodwin Proctor LLP (Leonard F. Lesser, Goodwin Procter LLP, New York, NY, of counsel), Washington, DC, for Appellees.