Plaintiffs in the largest buyer commission case (known as Batton) filed a motion to intervene Monday in a smaller commission case, Tuccori v. At World Properties, seeking to block preliminary approval of a proposed opt-in settlement by Anywhere Real Estate (a defendant in Batton) that they say would extinguish five years of homebuyer antitrust litigation…
Editor’s note: The COURT REPORT is RISMedia’s weekly look at current and upcoming lawsuits, investigations and other legal developments around real estate. U.S. Veterans sue Veterans United Home Loans, alleging RESPA violations and steering A proposed class-action lawsuit, Peyton v. Veterans United Home Loans, has been filed in the Western District of Missouri against Veterans…
Three mortgage companies have been accused of violating the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) in a new lawsuit filed in the Western District of Missouri. The newly filed Peyton v. Veterans United Home Loans takes aim at the mortgage company as well as Realty Search Solutions (aka Veterans United Realty) and the Mortgage Research…
In a mostly technical legal briefing filed last week in Virginia federal court, rivals Zillow and Redfin jointly pushed back against a lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and five states’ attorneys general that alleges the two companies violated federal antitrust law when they struck a rental “syndication” agreement late last year, arguing…
Editor’s note: The COURT REPORT is RISMedia’s weekly look at current and upcoming lawsuits, investigations and other legal developments around real estate. Rhode Island agent Kyle Seyboth under fire, again The Delva family—a Haitian immigrant family at the center of the Rhode Island Attorney General’s lawsuit against top agent Kyle Seyboth—has now filed their own…
Editor’s note: The COURT REPORT is RISMedia’s weekly look at current and upcoming lawsuits, investigations and other legal developments around real estate. Plaintiffs in consolidated commission case push for settlement approval Gibson v. NAR, the largest copycat case of the Burnett commission lawsuit filed in the same Missouri District Court overseen by Judge Stephen Bough,…
The LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance has filed a First Amended Complaint against former CEO Ryan A. Weyandt in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, seeking substantial damages across eight counts, and claiming he misappropriated the organization’s valuable 10,000-member customer list and engaged in a pattern of false statements designed to damage its…
A federal class-action complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on Jan. 16 accuses MC James Mortgage Corp, doing business as Liberty Financial, of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) by placing unsolicited prerecorded calls promoting loan products. The suit, brought by Illinois-based David Torres on behalf of…
Editor’s note: The COURT REPORT is RISMedia’s weekly look at current and upcoming lawsuits, investigations and other legal developments around real estate. NAR cleared in Sheth discrimination suit Judge Georgia Alexakis of U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division dismissed the Sheth discrimination case against the National Association of Realtors® (NAR)…
Zillow has been named in another antitrust lawsuit alleging steering in regards to the portal’s Premier agent programs and its Home Loans business. Filed Jan. 16 in the Western District of Washington by Stephanie Dupuis, the owner of the Dupuis Team in Kitsap County, the complaint alleges that Zillow “abuses its monopoly” and puts pressure…
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