United States v. Winthrop Towers, a Limited Partnership, and Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company as Trustee Under Trust 1037
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.
This is an action brought by the United States, on behalf of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (the “Secretary” and “HUD”) to foreclose a federally insured mortgage because the mortgage loan was in default. The defendant mortgagor, Winthrop Towers, admitted that the loan was in default but raised four affirma tive defenses to HUD’s action. The district court concluded that the Secretary’s decision to foreclose such a mortgage loan was “committed to agency discretion by law” and therefore could not be reviewed under the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C.…
Also in this document: Dissent.
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