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Who Am I?

No. 769 We have all spent a lifetime with ourselves. But do we really know the answer to the big question, “Who am I?” The answer resides in your mind.  If you are good at socializing with people you just met but not so good at solving technical problems while working alone, you might think […]

Pelosi Ethics

No. 768 So, according to news reports, former Speaker Pelosi threatened to reveal 1,000 pages of records from the House EthicsCommittee when it investigated Newt Gingrich. Dumb, dumb , dumb!  Its just like the who-dun-it character who, in Chapter One, threatens to kill the poor bastard who is eventually murdered in Chapter Two or Three. […]

Commonwealth Court: variance under Hertzberg still requires hardship of the property, not the person.

The standards for granting a variance are quite strict, but many continue to think that the relaxation of the rules for a dimensional variance under Hertzberg v. Zoning Board of Adjustment, 554 Pa. 249, 721 A.2d 43 (1998), gives them more than the Commonwealth Court will allow.

GMAC Pulls out of Massachusetts

In response to the suit by the Attorney General of Massachusetts, GMAC announced that it is terminating its home loan programs in that state. Attorney General Coakley says this constitutes an admission of non-compliance.

More on the Massachusetts AG’s Suit Against Lenders

As noted last week, the Attorney General of Massachusetts, Martha Coakley, file suit against the five largest home mortgage lenders in the United States and certain of their affiliate corporations, and Mortgage Electronic Registration System, Inc. and its parent, Merscorp, Inc. Massachusetts is the first to break ranks with the Attorney Generals of the 49 other states who were attempting to negotiate a joint settlement over mortgage foreclosure irregularities.

Massachusetts Sues Lenders Over Foreclosure Procedures.

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley filed suit against five large residential mortgage lenders for abusive mortgage foreclosure practices, ending lengthy negotiations on the subject. The lenders are Bank of America, J P Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citibank and GMAC, together with MERS. MERS is a “nominee” of lenders who becomes the record mortgagee in order to enable the mortgage to be assigned multiple times on the MERS records without the need of recording assignments.

Seminar on Preliminary Objections.

No. 763 My colleagues at Third Chair:Pittsburgh perform a number of free services for the bar, including publicizing cheap Continuing Legal Education.  If I had been smart, I would have told them (and you) a long time ago that I am giving a 3 hour CLE seminar at the Community College of Allegheny County Downtown […]

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