Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. v. Wise.

Opinion of the Court by

ACOBA, J.

We hold that Petitioners/Defendants-Appellants Sharon Kehaulani Wise (Wise) and Blossom Ilima Nihipali (Nihipali) (collectively Petitioners), mortgagors under the mortgage herein, are precluded from raising the standing of Respondent/Plaintiff-Appellee Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS, or Respondent) to bring the foreclosure action herein inasmuch as (1) a standing objection is not “unique” to a confirmation of sale proceeding, see Security Pacific Mortg. Corp. v. Miller, 71 Haw. 65, 70, 783 P.2d 855, 858 (1989), from which Petitioners…