Central Southwest Texas Development, L.L.C. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Ass'n

GREGG COSTA, Circuit Judge:

This is yet another in a series of cases concerning an obscure but heavily litigated consequence of the largest bank failure in Ü.S. history: the fate of Washington Mutual’s (WaMu) leases for real estate on which bank branches were as yet unbuilt at the time of the company’s collapse. In an earlier case addressing this issue, Excel Willowbrook, L.L.C. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 758 F.3d 592 (5th Cir.2014), we held that WaMu’s landlords had standing to bring a breach of contract claim against JPMorgan Chase, which had been assigned WaMu’s leases by virtue of its…