Legal Opinion
David Jacobs v. Federal Housing Finance Agency
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided November 14, 2018No. 17-3794PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BIBAS, Circuit Judge.
In 2008, the U.S. government strove to rescue the collapsing economy. Its extreme measures helped many, but others suffered as a result. One of the rescue measures, the Housing and Economic Recovery Act, authorized the government to act as conservator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two government-sponsored enterprises with critical roles in the home-mortgage market. Under that conservatorship, Fannie and Freddie made a deal with the Department of Treasury. The deal guaranteed Fannie and Freddie access to hundreds of billions of dollars. But in return, they had to give…
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