Legal Opinion
Union County v. Merscorp, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 14, 2013No. Nos. 13-1443, 13-1794PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs, an Illinois county and several of its officials, filed a class action suit in an Illinois state court on behalf of all the counties in the state against the mortgage services company MERSCORP Holdings, Inc., and a number of banks that do business with it. The suit alleges that MER-SCORP is violating an Illinois statute that, the counties (as we’ll call the plaintiffs) contend, requires every mortgage on real property in Illinois to be recorded. The statute specifies that, if it is recorded, it must be recorded in the public-records office of the county in…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Landmark National Bank v. KeslerSupreme Court of Kansas · 2009
- Field v. RidgelyIllinois Supreme Court · 1886
- Federal National Mortgage Ass'n v. KuipersAppellate Court of Illinois · 2000
- Schaumburg State Bank v. Bank of WheatonAppellate Court of Illinois · 1990
- Dana Point Condominium Ass'n v. Keystone Service Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1986
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Merscorp, Inc. v. Del. Cnty.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2019
- Montgomery County Ex Rel. Becker v. MERSCORP Inc.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2015
- Macon County v. Merscorp, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2014
- National Union Fire Insurance v. Krause (In re Krause)District Court, N.D. Illinois · 2014
- State ex rel. Flaiz v. Merscorp, Inc.Ohio Court of Appeals · 2017
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