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LEE v. YANG

Banking Law, Family Law, Property Law & Real Estate
The California Multiple-Party Accounts Law, not Civil Code section 683(a), governs the bank accounts in question, and plaintiff was not entitled to...

US v. MINGO

Banking Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Sentence for bank fraud convictions is affirmed over claims that the district court erred in enhancing defendant's sentence pursuant to U.S.S.G....

FARM CREDIT SERVS. OF AM. v. AM. STATE BANK

Banking Law, Commercial Law
Because the payable-through bank failed to comply with Regulation CC requirements (12 C.F.R. section 229.33(a)) and did not provide the depository...

OLSON v. SIX RIVERS NAT'L BANK

Banking Law, Consumer Protection Law
Defendant bank did not violate the California Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies act by requesting credit information pertaining to one plaintiff in...

SOTO-NEGRON v. TABER PARTNERS I

Banking Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Dismissal of a RICO action, which claimed defendant bank improperly cashed a series of checks written to another party, is affirmed on the grounds...

LIVINGSTON v. ASSOCS. FIN., INC.

Banking Law, Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
Denial of a motion to compel arbitration in a Truth In Lending Act claim is reversed where an arbitration agreement was controlling, and defendants'...

WACHOVIA BANK, N.A. v. FED. RESERVE BANK OF RICHMOND

Banking Law, Commercial Law
A retailer's failure to implement the defendant's suggested method of vendor payment, Electronic Funds Transfer, did not "substantially contribute" to...

LOUISIANA FED. LAND BANK ASS'N v. FARM CREDIT ADMIN.

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Banking Law
Prior to promulgating a rule eliminating geographical restrictions upon certain activities of lenders within the Farm Credit System, to put them in...

IN THE MATTER OF CPDC, INC.

Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Commercial Law, Contracts, Debt Collection
Defendants timely cured alleged violations of the Texas usury statute, which affords a creditor 60 days to cure from the date when the creditor...

CARMICHAEL v. THE PAYMENT CTR., INC.

Banking Law, Consumer Protection Law
Defendant's disclosures were adequate under the Truth in Lending Act, as the word "amount" in 15 U.S.C. section 1638(a)(6) does not necessarily equate...