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Requirements Pertaining to the Electronic Delivery of Required Documents
Recent research indicates that approximately 80 percent of investors in the United States have access to the Internet in their homes. For a growing number of people, the Internet is the preferred way to communicate and do business. Given the widespread use of the Internet, increasing consumer...
ArticlesZimbabwe: Why the United Nations, State, and Non-State Actors Failed to Effectively Regulate Mugabe's Policy of Internal Displacement
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ArticlesRESPA Here We Go Again
At a June 27, 2005 press conference, Department of Housing and Urban Development ("HUD") Secretary Alfonso Jackson announced HUD's roadmap for reform of its regulations implementing the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 ("RESPA"). HUD states that it seeks to "update, simplify and...
ArticlesAssignee Liability in Residential Mortgage Transactions
The holder in due course rule that protects assignees of mortgage loans from borrowers' claims against lenders has been restricted by federal and state legislation aimed at protecting consumers. Further erosion of the rule may arise from the judicial doctrines of imputed knowledge and sham...
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