Real Estate & Property Law

TARP Accountability Hearing: Use of Federal Assistance by the First TARP Recipients
House Financial Services Committee hearing entitled TARP Accountability: Use of Federal Assistance by the First TARP Recipients, February 11, 2009....

Get your Piece of the American Dream: Application for TARP Capital Purchase Program
Now that insurance companies figured out they can purchase the smallest of regulated bank holding companies to qualify for TARP funds, it’s time for everyone to grab an application to participate in TARP’s Capital Purchase Program...

TARP Fund Restrictions Are Proposed in New Legislation
Much criticism has flowed from how the first $350 billion in TARP "bailout" funds are being used. Thus far, the need for additional restrictions to prevent and penalize fraud and abuse of TARP money remains unmet...

Financial Services Hearing on TARP Accountability - CEOs Testify
The House Financial Services Committee is holding a hearing this morning on TARP accountability and the use of federal assistance by the first TARP recipients. The eight CEOs representing companies who received TARP funds are testifying...

Still no transparency on bank bailouts
Bloomberg News has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit over the Bush administration's refusal to reveal the nature of $2 trillion in loans made to businesses and the collateral used to secure those loans...

More on "Single Triggers" and TARP
More on "Single Triggers" and TARP Last week, I blogged about how some financial institutions participating in the Treasury's TARP Capital Purchase Program might be changing their "double triggers" to single for their change of control arrangements...

Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
Bailout Bill HR124

House Closing
Sealing a home sale

Florida, USA
alleging restrictions too tight on Medicaid recipients.

Institutionalized Medicaid Recipients
Sue For Right To Choose Where They Live

KeyBank USA
alleging the bank offered loans for fraudulent vocational schools.

Landfill Eminent Domain
Surry County pays $800,000 settlement to purchase farm land for town dump.

SunTrust HELOC Loan Termination
SunTrust HELOC allegedly violated clients contracts by decreasing, freezing, or terminating HELOC loans.

Bush Administration
class action settlement ensures Medicaid beneficiaries can continue to purchase prescription drugs at minimum cost when they become eligible for Medicare.