Review Of Quiet Title Action Ruling Unnecessary, Respondents Tell High Court

Mealey's (March 23, 2021, 2:13 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Supreme Court review of a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruling that a federal district court’s determination that a quiet title action brought by Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. (Freddie Mac) and M&T Bank was timely because Freddie Mac was standing in the shoes of its conservator and M&T was standing in the shoes of Freddie Mac when the action was brought is not warranted because the Federal Foreclosure Bar protects a conservatorship property from “extinguishment  by ‘foreclosure[] or sale,’” Freddie Mac and M&T argue in a March 22 respondents’ brief filed in the Supreme Court....