Radatz v. Federal National Mortgage Ass'n

{¶ 36} The plurality opinion states that it affirms the appellate court, and Radatz sincerely wishes that it had. The appellate court, after all, concluded that requiring Fannie Mae to pay a judgment would not impose a penalty, something that Radatz agrees with, but something the plurality opinion most decidedly does not agree with. Even as it technically affirms the lower court, it does so, in its own words, “for different reasons.” Plurality opinion at ¶ 1. Radatz’s pyrrhic victory in this case is reminiscent of Nicholas Breton’s line that “a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.” The Works…