Mortgage-Related Claims Were Properly Removed To Federal Court, Judge Holds

Mealey's (April 26, 2018, 1:27 PM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — Even though the damages sought by a borrower in relation to a loan modification from lenders and a loan servicer were significantly reduced in an amended complaint, a California federal judge on April 24 said the court had to rely on the amount sought in the original state court pleading, which satisfied the amount-in-controversy requirements for federal jurisdiction (Yakov Litinetsky v. Caliber Homes Inc., et al., No. 18-1586, C.D. Calif., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 69014)....