Legal Opinion
Boyd County ex rel. Hedrick v. Merscorp, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided June 5, 2015No. 14-5647PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JANE B. STRANCH, Circuit Judge.
Forty-one of Kentucky’s 120 counties, through their county attorneys, brought this putative class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky against Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS) and its shareholders. The counties allege that MERS and its shareholders have assigned and continue to assign mortgage liens among each other without recording those assignments, in violation of Kentucky law. The district court dismissed the lawsuit on the ground that the counties lacked the power to enforce the…
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- David Dayton v. Peck, Stow and Wilcox Co. (Pexto)Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1984
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