Mealey's (December 16, 2021, 1:54 PM EST) -- CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A federal judge in West Virginia on Dec. 14 denied a mortgage lender’s motion to dismiss a borrower’s claims against it in a predatory lending lawsuit stemming from an allegedly fraudulent appraisal the lender used as part of a mortgage refinance loan it provided to the borrower, ruling that the borrower is a consumer under West Virginia law and that her claims are neither untimely nor barred by laches....