On September 20th, Gov. Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2424, a bill that will expand upon California’s Homeowner Bill of Rights statutory regime and add even further restrictions on nonjudicial foreclosure proceedings in the state. The bill contains three critical revisions to existing…
MoreThe following summaries are of recent published decisions of the California appellate courts, the Ninth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. The summaries are presented without regard to whether Severson & Werson represented a party in the case.
This decision reverses the order granting an Anti-SLAPP motion in this FDCPA and UCL class action by a student loan debtor against a collection law firm and debt buyer. Closely following Tourgeman v. Nelson & Kennard (2014) 222 Cal.App.4th 1447, the opinion finds that the suit met the three enumerated requirements of a public benefit suit under CCP 425.17(b). It…
MoreLeslie Fales first joined Severson in 2019. She is a natural born litigator with broad experience that enables her to handle a wide spectrum of cases. As a member of the Firm’s Insurance and Construction Practice groups, Leslie routinely and…
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