United States Second Circuit

Federal law preempts the field of mortgage escrow accounts held by federal savings associations.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/21/2005
• Published 01/24/2005

Judges

• STRAUB, Circuit Judge., Before:  OAKES, CALABRESI, and STRAUB, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William R. Weinstein, Wechsler Harwood, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Michael Katz, Rabunski & Katz, LLP, New York City, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jean E. Burke, Thacher Proffitt & Wood, LLP, New York City (Doreen Klein, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellee., H. Rodgin Cohen, Sullivan and Cromwell LLP (Bruce E. Clark, of counsel), New York City, for the New York Bankers' Association as amicus curiae in support of Defendant-Appellee.