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GARDNER v. FIRST AM. TITLE INS. CO.

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Property Law & Real Estate
Plaintiffs established standing and stated a sufficient claim, under FRCP 8(a), in alleging that defendants violated the Real Estate Settlement...

C.H.E.G., INC. v. MILLENIUM BANK

Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
A bankruptcy court's order, that property be transferred "free and clear of all interests in the property" at a bankruptcy sale, terminated a property...

BESS v CHECK EXPRESS

Banking Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
Where plaintiff was not likely to incur prohibitive costs through arbitration, court's reasoning in denying a motion to compel arbitration was in...

NICKEL v. BANK OF AMERICA

Banking Law, Remedies, Probate, Trusts & Estates
The appropriate remedy under California law for a breach of trust by a profit-making bank (a professional trustee) is a proportionate share of the...

US v. BLAJOS

Banking Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a prosecution for armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. section 2113, the government is only required to prove that the financial institution from...

YOUNG v. EQUIFAX CREDIT INFO. SERV., INC.

Banking Law, Commercial Law, Contracts, Consumer Protection Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a claim for publication of defamatory credit information, res judicata is not a per se bar to a suit based on publications occurring after final...

DMC, INC. v. DOWNEY SAV. & LOAN ASS'N

Banking Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Where an original owner's repurchase of property after a trustee's sale revived a junior deed of trust, that lien remains second to the purchase-money...

FRANCONIA ASSOC. v. US

Banking Law, Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
Because enactment of the Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation Act qualified as a repudiation of a housing loan, not a present breach of the loan...

SCHUETZ v. BANC ONE MORTGAGE CORP.

Banking Law, Class Actions, Property Law & Real Estate
Yield spread premiums, fees paid by mortgage lenders to mortgage brokers based on the difference between the interest rate at which the broker...

BANK ONE LOUISIANA N A v. MR. DEAN MV

Admiralty, Banking Law
A maritime lien for breach of a charter attaches when the owner places the vessel at the charterer's disposal, and remains inchoate until perfected by...