5th Circuit Upholds Ruling Challenging Allegedly Inaccurate Appraisal

(January 13, 2020, 9:22 AM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — A Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Jan. 7 upheld a ruling dismissing a couple’s quiet title lawsuit, finding that a federal judge in Texas did not err because the couple did not sufficiently allege in a second amended complaint that an appraisal of their home was invalid under the Texas Constitution because it was for more than 80 percent of their home (Femi Onabajo, et al. v. Household Finance Corporation III, et al., No. 19-50365, 5th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 460)....