Real Estate & Property Law

New bailout money to help struggling Arizona homeowners
PHOENIX — Money from the U.S. bank bailouts is now going to homeowners, according to Michael Trailor, the director of the Arizona Department of Housing. Arizona, California, Florida, Michigan and Nevada are each receiving $125 million in federal funds to save homeowners from foreclosure...

New Battle Cry in the Foreclosure Wars: 'Show Me the Note!'
A new battle cry has begun to spread among homeowners fighting to keep their homes out of foreclosure: ?Show Me the Note!? CBS San Francisco reports that a key foreclosure document -- the promissory note that borrowers sign in which they promise to pay the mortgage to the lender -- is increasingly difficult for lenders to produce...

SEIU Launches Wheres The Note Campaign To Help Homeowners Fight Foreclosure
Image via Wikipedia A coalition of groups led by the SEIU is launching a campaign to help homeowners capitalize on a growing foreclosure fraud scandal that has forced banks to halt foreclosures across the country...

The Plaintiff found the note! Now what
As a foreclosure defense attorney representing hundreds of homeowners in Florida, I have read literally a thousand foreclosure complaints over the last few years.  Most every one includes a lost note count...

Arizona Seeks Government Foreclosure Funds
Here are key parts of Arizona’s 25-page proposal for the Help for the Hardest Hit Housing Markets fund. The Save My Home AZ Program has three parts. ? Permanent modifications to help homeowners, who are usually underwater on their mortgages...

No Friend to the Banksters... Attorney Nick Wooten -- A Mandelman Matters Podcast
``Nick has made headlines for his lawsuits against the banksters on behalf of homeowners as much as anyone, and a lot more than most. Most recently Nick was kicking the crap out of LPS or Lender Processing Services, but he's also leading a coordinated attack against MERS, and recently he won a very high profile case in Alabama, Horace v...

How to Stop Home Foreclosure
Bankruptcy can Stop Foreclosure

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
Descriptions of law enforcement occupations

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Is Barack Obama a Natural Born Citizen?
Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz (Supreme Court): Does Obama meet the constitutional requirements to be President

Heart of Atlanta v United States
Supreme Court Decision: Civil Rights Act Protected by Interstate Commerce Clause

Microsoft
Settles with Arizona for $4.4 Million

FDA
Requests Labeling Change for Singulair, Accolate and Zyflo and Zyflo CR

GMAC Faces Class Action over Foreclosure Abuses
GMAC Faces Foreclosure Abuses Class Action

Lipitor
Review of Studies Show No Significant Benefit in Women

Tarceva
Safety Data Show Association with Liver Failure and Death

Bank of America Faces Class Action over Mortgage Foreclosure Practices
Bank of America Faces Class Action over Mortgage Foreclosure Practices