Thursday, February 24, 2011

New Jersey State Supreme Court Judge threatens blanket moratorium on foreclosures

In reaction to the robo-signing foreclosure mess, Judge Stuart Rabner, the chief justice of the New Jersey State Supreme Court, announced that he intended to issue a blanket moratorium on foreclosures by all major lenders in the State of New Jersey unless they could come into court and show that they are definitively complying with state law when foreclosing upon New Jersey homeowners. Judge Rabner assigned the matter to Judge Mary Jacobson, who ordered representatives from six major banks (Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase, OneWest Bank, Citigroup, and Ally Financial) to testify to the court as to why the state should not suspend foreclosures.


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