Mealey's (December 26, 2019, 9:53 AM EST) -- SEATTLE — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Dec. 13 affirmed a ruling dismissing a man’s lawsuit alleging that his mortgage lender and loan servicer’s attempt to foreclose on his loan was barred by the six-year statute of limitations, finding that the man restarted the limitations period when he requested a loan modification (David Barton Thacker v. Bank of New York Mellon, et al., No. 19-35215, 9th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 36894)....