Adelson v. Ocwen Financial Corp.

ORDER

Eight years ago Wendy Adelson, a Michigan homeowner, sued Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, and other companies involved with her home mortgage in a Michigan court; her complaint raised only state-law claims. She soon found herself litigating in Chicago, however, after the defendants (for simplicity we disregard all but Ocwen and HSBC Bank USA) removed the suit to federal court in Michigan and then engineered its transfer to the Northern District of Illinois, the site of multidis-trict litigation involving a host of claims against Ocwen. Since then Adelson’s suit, which principally alleges that…