(December 19, 2023, 8:07 AM EST) -- BROOKLYN, N.Y. — New York’s Foreclosure Abuse Prevention Act (FAPA), implemented in December 2022, does not require a federal judge to reconsider a December 2021 grant of summary judgment to the holder of the mortgage who previously failed to foreclose on a property and determined that a letter sent a week before the statute of limitations expired was found to be “an affirmative act to decelerate the mortgage,” a federal judge in New York ruled, opining that the mortgagor still had legal options available and that the state court should decide this issue concerning state law....