Don’t use Google Scholar, use Google Scholar Advanced Scholar Search.
No. 632 If you’ve been disappointed by Google Scholar for legal research, try the advanced version. It enables you to select jurisdictions, such as Third Circuit and Pennsylvania Courts. Once you find a case you like, click on the “How Cited” tab. Of course, there is no statute search, but you may be able to [...]
Judge Wettick Holds that Verification by an “Authorized Representative” of Party Does Not Satisfy the Rules of Civil Procedure.
No. 620 Complaints in mortgage foreclosures and credit card cases are frequently verified by individuals who are not employees of the plaintiff, but of some service company engaged by the plaintiff for that purpose. Judge Wettick, as the judge handling preliminary objections in arbitration cases, has held that such verifications do not comply with [...]
Electronic Discovery Update: “We’ll Need Just One of You.”
No. 595. Dear young (or maybe not so young) lawyer: Don’t count on making a career out of working on electronic discovery projects. Unless, of course, you are the boss. You may have seen articles recently about software that does the work of hundreds of document coders, only more efficiently, quickly and accurately. Well, its [...]
The Super Bowl Effect.
Judge Jeffrey Manning ordered jury selection in the Orie trial delayed from February 7 to February 8 because the Steelers play in the Super Bowl the night before. The Judge’s stated reason was that there might be celebrations occurring that day. The unstated reason, of course, is that there might be celebrations occurring the night before and it is hard enough to get up on a cold February Monday when you haven’t been drinking and raising hell the night before. That applies to judges and court personnel as well as jurors.
Update: FHLB of Pgh. v. J P Morgan et al.
No. 560 Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh v. J P Morgan Securities, LLC, J P Morgan Acquisitions Corp., J P Morgan Mortgage Acceptance Corporation I, Chase Home Finance LLC, Chase Mortgage Finance Corporation, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Moody’s Corporation, Moody’s Investor s Services, Inc., The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc and Fitch, Inc. No. GD09-016892 On [...]
Loughren v. Bair Update: Goldbeck Strikes Back.
No. 556 A month ago, on December 4, 2010, we reported about a potentially very important case in which a Pittsburgh lawyer had just filed in an equity action against a Philadelphia law firm specializing in mortgage foreclosure. The gist of the complaint is that the law firm of Goldbeck, McCafferty & McKeever, PC had [...]
Obamacare and the Courts.
Despite what they tell you on Fox News, the decision by US District Judge Hudson in Richmond means little concerning the final resolution of the issues relating to the constitutionality of the requirement that everyone acquire health care insurance by — did someone say 2013?
WETTICK PARTIALLY SUSTAINS PRELIMINARY OBJECTIONS BY J P MORGAN COMPANIES AND RATING AGENCIES IN MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES LITIGATION. FOUR MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR CASES PROCEED TO DISCOVERY PHASE.
The securities suit brought by the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh against a group of J P Morgan companies and the rating agencies they used, filed last year in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, is being closely watched as a bellweather for similar cases filed by others in the FHLB system. One commentator saw the ruling in Pittsburgh as a positive sign for FHLB plaintiffs in San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago and Indianapolis, whose cases have not yet advanced to this point, since the Pittsburgh FHLB’s case survived preliminary objections on general allegations of fraud.
Mortgage Forclosure: PA Superior Court holds sheriff sale may be set aside when complaint fails to allege how plaintiff became proper owner of mortgage.
A panel of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania reversed a Common Pleas Court order refusing to set aside a sheriff sale and strike a default judgment when the the record lacked any mention of how the Plaintiff acquired ownership of the mortgage.
Goldbeck, McCafferty & McKeever PC, Philadelphia foreclosure law firm, faces serious charges in Allegheny County Equity Action.
Goldbeck, McCafferty & McKeever PC is one of a handful of law firms in Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania that has handled thousands of mortgage foreclosures throughout the State. However, the firm was delivered a severe blow in Bankruptcy Court this week. Coverage of that matter brought to light a suit recently filed in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court that is likely to have far-reaching consequences — to that firm, to numerous cases statewide and even to real estate previously sold in sheriff sales.
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