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747 F.Supp.2d 247 (2010) F. Patricia CALLAHAN, Plaintiff, v. WELLS FARGO & COMPANY aka Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Successor in Interest to Wachovia Corporation, Successor in Interest to First Union National Bank, N.A., and Wachovia Corporation,[1] Defendants. Civil Action No. 09-12207-MBB. United States District Court, D. Massachusetts. November 1, 2010.

MARCUS, Circuit Judge: *1263 This pair of ambitious fair housing lawsuits brought by the City of Miami against major financial institutions returns to our Court after having been appealed to the Supreme Court and resolved there in Bank of America Corp. v. City of Miami

ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT NATHANAEL M. COUSINS, United States Magistrate Judge In this wrongful foreclosure case, plaintiff David Curley brings breach-of-contract and fraud claims against defendant Wells Fargo. Curley argues that Wells Fargo failed to abide by the terms of a Trial Period Plan when it failed to offer him a permanent loan modification and initiated foreclosur

ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR JUDGMENT ON THE PLEADINGS PHYLLIS J. HAMILTON, United States District Judge Before the court is the motion of defendants Wells Fargo & Company, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., WFC Holdings Corporation, Wachovia Corporation, and Wachovia Bank, N.A. (“Wells Fargo”) for judgment on the pleadings on the first two causes of action asserted in the complaint. Having read the par

PER CURIAM: This appeal requires us to decide whether the summary-judgment standard applies in determining whether a plaintiff has standing when the district court has limited discovery and the merits issues to be considered on summary judgment, and, if so, whether the plaintiff in this appeal introduced sufficient evidence of standing under that standard. The City of Miami Gardens file

FEDERICO A. MORENO, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE Born out of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, the Fair Housing Act addressed the denial of housing opportunities on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin. Half a century later, the City of Miami Gardens is invoking the law to remedy discriminatory lending by Defendant Wells Fargo. The City contends that discriminatory lending persists even amid

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR JUDGMENT ON THE PLEADINGS SAYLOR, District Judge. This action arises from a homeowner’s default on her home mortgage loan. On April 20, 2006, plaintiff Jacquelyn Stokes mortgaged her home in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. Defendant Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., is the servicer of plaintiffs mortgage. Defendant Deutsche Bank National Trust Company is allegedly

MARCUS, Circuit Judge: On December 13, 2011, the City of Miami brought three separate fair housing lawsuits against Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and Citigroup. Each alleged that the bank in question had engaged in a decade-long pattern of discriminatory lending by targeting minorities for predatory loans. The complaints in each case were largely identical, each identifying the

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER REGARDING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS AND PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION TO REMAND TO STATE COURT (Dkt. Nos. 8 & 15) PONSOR, District Judge. I. INTRODUCTION Plaintiffs Mark and Tammy LaRace are Springfield residents who purchased a home at 6 Brookburn Street. Defendants at various times have held a mortgage on the property, either

MEMORANDUM WILLIAM M. NICKERSON, Senior District Judge. Numerous motions are pending in these two related cases. In Minter v. Wells *629Fargo, Civ. No. WMN-07-3442 (Minter), the following motions are pending and ripe: Plaintiffs’ Motion for Partial Summary Judgment Regarding Defendants’ Non-Compliant ABA Disclo

MEMORANDUM OPINION SUSAN K. GAUVEY, United States Magistrate Judge. Before the Court is plaintiffs’ Motion to Compel defendant Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. and Wells Fargo Ventures LLC (collectively “Wells Fargo”) to respond to interrogatories seeking fees paid to or charged by Defendants in Class members’ mortgage loan transactions. (ECF No. 322). Briefing is complete. The Court held two hearings on

MEMORANDUM & ORDER WILLIAM M. NICKERSON, Senior District Judge. Before the Court in these related certified class actions are motions filed by the named-plaintiffs in a putative class action pending in a Maryland state court, Larocca et al. v. The Creig Northrop Team et al., No. 13-C-11-89075 (Cir.Ct.How.Co.). ECF No. 391 in Civil Action No. WMN-07-3442 (Minter) and ECF No. 282 in Civ

MEMORANDUM WILLIAM M. NICKERSON, Senior District Judge. Pending before the Court is Plaintiffs’ Motion to Direct Notice and Administrative Schedule, ECF No. 293.1 Defendants Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. and Wells Fargo Ventures, LLC (collectively, Wells Fargo) filed an opposition, ECF No. 342, which Defendants Prosperity Mortgage Company, Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc.,

ORDER ON MOTIONS TO DISMISS AND TO STRIKE JEFFREY S. WHITE, District Judge. INTRODUCTION This matter comes before the Court upon consideration of the Motion to Strike filed by Wells Fargo & Company and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., d/b/a America’s Servicing Company (Docket No. 135), a Joint Motion to Dismiss (the “Joint Motion”) (Docket No. 132)1, and the motions to

OPINION PER CURIAM: INTRODUCTION The U.S. Department of the Treasury, acting under the direction of Congress, launched the Home Affordable Modification Program (“HAMP”) in 2009 to help distressed homeowners with delinquent mortgages, but the program seems to have created more litigation than it has happy homeowners. The issue we must

762 F.Supp.2d 342 (2011) Wilfredo and Odalid BOSQUE, Vera Vicente Meek, Jennifer Williams, Jennifer Ryan and Gary Voltaire, and Paul Montero, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. d/b/a Wells Fargo Home Mortgage d/b/a America's Servicing Company, Defendant. Civil Action No. 10-10311-FDS. United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.</

*529 MEMORANDUM WILLIAM M. NICKERSON, Senior District Judge. Before the Court is a motion to certify plaintiff classes in the above-captioned related disputes. Plaintiffs Denise Minter, Jason Alborough and Rachel Alborough have moved the Court on behalf of themselves and other similarly situated individuals, ECF No. 185 in Minter,

798 F.Supp.2d 1059 (2011) Karen LUCIA and Jeffrey Lucia, on behalf of themselves and other similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. d/b/a Wells Fargo Home Mortgage and Does 1-10, Defendants. Phillip R. Corvello, on behalf of himself and all other similarly situated, Plaintiff, v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. d/b/a Wells Fargo Home Mortgage d/b/a America's Servicing Company, Defendants. Nos. C 10-04749

758 F.Supp.2d 382 (2010) DATATREASURY CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. WELLS FARGO & COMPANY, et al., Defendants. Civil Action No. 2:06-CV-72 DF. United States District Court, E.D. Texas, Marshall Division. September 27, 2010. *383 Michael T. McLemore, Houston, TX, pro se. Nelson James Roach, David Neil Smith, Derek Tod Gill

675 F.Supp.2d 591 (2009) Denise MINTER, et al. v. WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., et al. Bradley Petry, et al. v. Prosperity Mortgage Co., et al. Civil Nos. WMN-07-3442, WMN-08-1642. United States District Court, D. Maryland. December 16, 2009. *593 Richard S. Gordon, Quinn Gordon and Wolf Chtd., Towson, MD, Benjamin Howard C