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  • November 18, 2025

    Feds Grill NY Gov. Aide's Mom In Pursuit Of FARA Money Trail

    Federal prosecutors on Tuesday turned their focus to tracing the proceeds from a purported scheme by a former top New York state government staffer to secretly further the interests of the People's Republic of China, calling the defendant's own mother to the stand over a bank account alleged to have been used to move criminal funds.

  • November 18, 2025

    Fla. Condo Says Insurers Handled Storm Claim In Bad Faith

    A group of property insurers acted in bad faith by failing to properly, timely and fairly adjust a claim for damage caused by Hurricane Sally in 2020, the owner of a Pensacola condominium complex told a Florida federal court.

  • November 18, 2025

    Groups Seek More Time To Comment On SEC's RMBS Plan

    The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association is among those calling for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to grant more time to provide feedback on a plan that could change how the agency regulates residential mortgage-backed securities, citing the recent government shutdown as a reason for extending the deadline. 

  • November 18, 2025

    Flagstar Urges 9th Circ. Redo For Escrow Interest Ruling

    Flagstar Bank pushed the entire Ninth Circuit to reconsider its prior ruling in a putative class action that accused the bank of violating a California law that requires banks to make interest payments for escrow accounts connected to certain types of residential mortgage loans, arguing that the court deciding that the state law is not preempted by the National Bank Act clashes with the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in a similar case.

  • November 18, 2025

    NJ Justices Asked How 'Beneficial Use' Should Affect Zoning

    A Garden State town urged the New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday to provide a blueprint for how municipal zoning boards should evaluate variance applications under a nearly three-decade-old amendment to the state's land use law, arguing that a lower court did not give the update proper consideration when it overturned the town's denial of a senior living facility.

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