Dismissal Of Claims In Borrower Suit Over Home Seizure Overturned On Appeal

Mealey's (July 20, 2022, 10:37 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Although a federal district court erred in dismissing certain claims brought by a borrower against his mortgage loan servicer and one of its agents on claims that they forcibly entered his home while he was at work and took possession of the property and certain of the borrower’s personal belongings while the judicial foreclosure proceedings were ongoing, the court did not err in granting summary judgment in favor of the loan servicer on the borrower’s claim for conversion, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled July 15 in affirming in part and reversing in part....