One less-discussed but important aspect of the Supreme Judicial Court's ("SJC's") decision in Eaton v. National Federal Mortgage Association, 462 Mass. 569 (2012), is found in its most narrow ruling. Even though the Court held that the named plaintiff, Henrietta...
The Supreme Judicial Court's ("SJC's") self-imposed limitation on applicability of Eaton v. Federal National Mortgage Association, 462 Mass. 569 (2012) should reduce to a trickle the once-steady stream of foreclosure-related claims asserting that a mortgagee must hold...
Last fall, in Bevilacqua v. Rodriguez, 460 Mass. 762 (2011), the Supreme Judicial Court (the "SJC") quashed the hopes of many that a "try title" action available by statute in Massachusetts would provide a mechanism to clear the title of a post-foreclosure owner whose...
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