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Government

Mar. 14, 2012

Rare eviction ruling gains attention

In an unprecedented case, a judge denied a mortgage company's attempt to evict a non-paying tenant because it flouted a federal law requiring foreclosing parties to give such tenants 90 days notice before eviction.


By Jason W. Armstrong


Daily Journal Staff Writer


In an apparently unprecedented case in California, a judge turned down a mortgage company's attempt to evict a nonpaying tenant from a Los Angeles home because it flouted a federal law requiring new owners of foreclosed properties to give such tenants 90 days' notice before eviction.


After Private National Mortgage Acceptance Company LLC bought the owner's property at a foreclosure s...

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