Christopher A. Gorman writes: Until recently, lenders could generally rest assured that, if a borrower in a mortgage foreclosure action did not specifically plead the affirmative defense of lack ...

ADT LLC, No. 18-481 WES, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 171591 (D.R.I. Oct. 4, 2018), Defendant removed a TCPA case filed in Rhode Island state court, and filed an answer which included an affirmative ...

For most defendants, dismissal of a class action for lack of standing would be a resounding victory. But for Wal-Mart in Pitre , that outcome thrust them back into Orange County.

Plan-Nonbargained Program, 718 F. Supp. 2d 1167, 1173 (N.D. Cal. 2010) (holding defendant’s “arguments regarding prejudice cannot rescue its otherwise legally insufficient affirmative defenses ...

Christopher A. Gorman writes: Until recently, lenders could generally rest assured that, if a borrower in a mortgage foreclosure action did not specifically plead the affirmative defense of lack ...