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?

Do You Know Who Sancho Panza’s Master Is? To #Amazing Race Producers and Contestants, its Trivia.

No. 541 None of the six contestants (three teams of two) did on the season finale of the Amazing Race. All of them had to ask someone along the way to retrieve the answer (which was a clue) from the internet. This included the two young female doctors who won the race. Amazing Race is […]

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.

Ron Paul and Wikileaks: The Emperor Has No Clothes.

With leaders of his party calling for prosecution of Wikileak founder Julian Assage for treason, Ron Paul expresses the contrarian viewpoint. He wished out loud on Fox News for a wikileak report of all of the secret documents regarding the Federal Reserve — one of his particular targets. Since when is exposing the truth in the media treason?, he asks. Are the news outlets who reprint the Wikileak documents committing treason, too?

The Cost of Incivility.

No. 537 An article in the New York Times talks about the growing prevalence of impolite behavior and its cost, financial and otherwise. For example, many people eventually quit jobs or don’t give as much effort because they have been treated badly. Such consequences are rarely reported to the wrongdoers, who are blissfully unaware that […]

Goodbye “Adams Drafting”; Hello, “The Koncise Drafter”.

One of our favorite blogs will no longer be updated. The last post went up today on Adams Drafting, a place where you could read about and comment on all of those lawyerly ideosynchrosies that found their way into contracts.

It Was A Good Year To Die Rich.

AD 2010 has been a year to die for — sorry, we mean “in.” As we all know by now, the Federal Estate Tax went away this year, making it a once in a lifetime opportunity for billionaire Americans to expire and leave their empires to their heirs.

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