(August 3, 2020, 4:18 PM EDT) -- FRESNO, Calif. — A federal judge in California on July 21 stayed a class action accusing Freedom Mortgage Corp. (FMC) of violating California's unfair competition law (UCL) when charging additional fees for making mortgage payments online or over the phone under the "first-to-file" rule because the allegations in the suit are "sufficiently similar" to a class action in federal court in Texas that was filed a month before (Neri Urbina, et al. v. Freedom Mortgage Corp., No. 19-1471, E.D. Calif., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 128631)....