By Michael Belote, Esq., California Advocates, UTA California Lobbyist There are at least a couple of inescapable truths about sponsoring bills in the California Legislature. The first is that the bill you cause to be introduced is likely to be changed as it moves through the process.  People who expect...

UTA has re-filed an amicus brief in the case of Meyer v. US Bank. Ann T. Marshall, Esq., with Anglin Flewelling Rasmussen Campbell & Trytten LLP (AFRCT) filed the brief on behalf of the association.

January 4, 2016 commenced the second year of the current 2015-2016 two-year session of the California Legislature. Equal to the certainty of death and taxes is the reliability that the Assembly and Senate will introduce a very large number of bills to make all of our lives better.

By Michael Belote, Esq., California Advocates, UTA California Lobbyist Perhaps it stands to reason that California, which takes pride in claiming to be the eighth-largest economy in the world, if we were a country, would also have a prodigious output of new legislation. Every year the California Legislature proposes around...

The California Court of Appeal has denied UTA’s request for publication of the decision in the case of Torigian v. WT Capital Lender Services, despite several joinders in that request by other interested entities and no known objections.   The case involved a trial court awarding over a hundred thousand dollars...

The California Court of Appeal has denied UTA’s request for publication of the decision in the case of Torigian v. WT Capital Lender Services, despite several joinders in that request by other interested entities and no known objections. The Court had issued a favorable opinion in the case in which...

On February 12, members of the Washington UTA met with lawmakers in the House and Senate to talk about issues of foreclosure. There were several issues to discuss - the long-standing problem with owner/holder/actual holder in the statute, a bill prohibiting secondary ownership of publishing newspapers, and the FFA as...

UTA has filed an amicus brief in the case of Torigian v WT Capital Lender Services. The case involves a trial court awarding hundreds of thousands of dollars in attorney fees against a Trustee who recorded a Notice of Default when the borrowers had successfully contended the note had been...

The California Supreme Court has granted hearings on cases challenging assignments of deeds of trust in wrongful foreclosure cases. Phillip Adleson, Esq., and Lisa Parrella, Esq., Adleson, Hess & Kelly, UTA’s Corporate Counsel, provide an update cases related to defects allegedly rendering the assignment void. Read the full article

UTA has filed an amicus brief in the case of Torigian v WT Capital Lender Services. The case involves a trial court awarding hundreds of thousands of dollars in attorney fees against a Trustee who recorded a Notice of Default when the borrowers had successfully contended the note had been...