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Litigation

May 28, 2013

'Robo-signing' suit against JPMorgan could avoid pitfalls of failed cases

Experts say Attorney General Kamala Harris' recent lawsuit against the financial giant is a well conceived case that strikes at the heart of collection abuses perpetrated by banks.


By Chase Scheinbaum


Daily Journal Staff Writer


LOS ANGELES - When the legal aid outpost Neighborhood Justice Clinic opened five years ago in Berkeley, its founders expected mostly homeless people to filter in and seek help with trespassing citations. Instead, about half of the clinic's clients were low-income individuals who had been sued over credit card debt, said Ted Mermin, a senior legal advisor at the East Bay Community Law Center, the clinic&...

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