11th Circuit Upholds Denial Of Motion To Sanction Loan Originator Over Removal

(September 30, 2019, 9:47 AM EDT) -- ATLANTA — An 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Sept. 19 upheld a federal judge in Georgia’s decision to not impose Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 sanctions against a man’s loan originator, finding that its removal of lawsuit challenging its assignment of the loan to Wells Fargo after the plaintiff moved to vacate a default judgment was not frivolous (Pedro J. Burgos v. Option One Mortgage Corp., No. 19-10932, 11th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 28338)....