Court Decisions
Oh What a Difference a Supreme Court Decision Makes
In its January 18, 2024 opinion in In Re Hilgartner, the United States Court of Appeals ...
Read More Kiviti v. Bhatt: Fourth Circuit Brain Twister
September 20, 2023 By: William L. Hallam The scope of Bankruptcy Court jurisdiction has been ...
Read More U.S. Supreme Court: Requiring Corporations to Consent to Jurisdiction As A Condition To Qualifying to Do Business In A State Does Not Violate Due Process Clause
June 28, 2023 By: William L. Hallam The June 27, 2023 decision of the United ...
Read More Rosenberg Martin Greenberg Achieves Significant Victory for Transgender Client in Anti-Discrimination Lawsuit
January 9, 2023 On January 6, 2023, a federal court in the District of Maryland ...
Read More No Windfall For You! Fourth Circuit Holds That Return of Loan Proceeds Is A Critical Part Of Rescission Under Truth In Lending Act
The federal Truth In Lending Act (TILA) is a consumer protection statute designed to protect ...
Read More Beckhart v. Newrez, LLC Preventive Maintenance Is For Bankruptcy Plans As Well As Cars
Those among us who were watching television in the 1970’s (yes, there was television that ...
Read More West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals Holds That Borrowers Facing Foreclosure Do Not Have Standing to Challenge Validity of Assignments of Their Debts
Clete Pavone bought property in West Virginia from Patrick Russell in October of 2018. Because ...
Read More Wheeling v. Selene Finance, LP: The Safe Harbor for Landlords Conducting Self-Help Evictions In Maryland Is Not So Safe After All
In an April 30, 2021 opinion, Maryland highest court, the Court of Appeals, largely reversed ...
Read More “No Harm, No Foul:” Suit to Set Aside Foreclosure Sale for Failure to Comply With Deed of Trust Doomed By Failure to Allege That Compliance Would Have Changed Outcome
The opinion of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals in Young-Allen v. Bank of America ...
Read More