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The Importance of a Promise : Underwater Mortgages and a Municipal Rescue Attempt Through Eminent Domain

Langdon, Joel - 2013

property plummeted, yet homeowners remain obligated to pay their bubble era mortgage amounts. This has created a situation …

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After the Storm : Asymmetrical Information, Game Theory, and an Examination of the 'Minnesota Model' for National Regulation of Mortgage Brokers and Tomorrow's Predatory Lenders

Ireland, Mark - 2012

-to-day activities of mortgage brokers and their relationship with consumers. This article identifies the three regulatory and … legislative failures related to mortgage lending, and then examines these failures through the economic concepts of asymmetrical … information and game theory. Specifically, how the regulatory failures resulted in mortgage brokers and lenders that were not …

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Mortgage Modification and Strategic Behavior : Evidence from a Legal Settlement with Countrywide

Mayer, Christopher J. - 2015

We investigate whether homeowners respond strategically to news of mortgage modification programs by defaulting on …-to-value ratios. These results suggest that strategic behavior of borrowers should be an important consideration in designing mortgage …

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The Fannie and Freddie Bailouts through the Corporate Lens

Badawi, Adam B. - 2015

In August of 2012, the Department of Treasury redirected the profits of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac away from common shareholders and into the Treasury. Those shareholders have filed multiple lawsuits challenging this action. The complaints allege, among other claims, that the decision to wipe...

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A Critique of Congressional Proposals to Permit Modification of Home Mortgages in Chapter 13

Scarberry, Mark S. - 2010

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Longer Trips to Court Cause Evictions

Hoffman, David A.; Strezhnev, Anton - 2022

Studying ~200,000 evictions filed against ~300,000 Philadelphians from 2005 through 2021, we focus on the role of transit to court in preventing tenants from asserting their rights. Over the time period, nearly 40% of all tenants were forced to leave their residences because they didn't show up...

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A Fraction of a Percent : A Call to Legal Service Providers to Increase Assistance to Community Nonprofits Using Biglaw Pro Bono

Nieman, Rebecca - 2020

I believe the Legal Services Corporation is remiss in not encouraging its grantees to focus their attention on assisting low-income, community nonprofits with their legal needs. The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) is one of the largest grantors to legal aid organizations in the country. In...

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The Paris Agreement Implementation Blueprint : Legal Avenues to Blueprint Implementation (Part 2)

Crosland, Tim - 2017

The combination of political and climate crises in early 2017 create the conditions for the ultimate perfect storm. The dramatic collapse of polar ice-sheets, coupled with climatic and weather conditions increasingly hostile to human life and livelihoods, appear to demand an immediate...

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An Empirical Assessment of the Impact of Formal Versus Informal Dispute Resolution on Poverty : A Governance-Based Approach

Buscaglia, Edgardo; Stephan, Paul B. - 2013

Based on governance-related criteria, this article provides an empirical jurimetric verification of how, where, when and why alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanisms provide efficiency-enhancing channels to redress grievances in less developed countries. Based on data collected in 16...

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Einstweilige Maßnahmen nach den EPG (UPC)-Verfahrensregeln - eine Untersuchung im Rechtsvergleich zu einstweiligen Verfügungsverfahren in deutschen Patentstreitigkeiten

Walesch, Benedikt - 2023

English Abstract: Benedikt Walesch analyses the provisional measures under the UPC Rules of Procedure (RoP) and compares them with preliminary injunctions in German patent litigation.He examines the requirements for provisional measures. In doing so, he discusses how the procedure can be...

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