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Law Practice

Dec. 11, 2007

Securities Fraud Suit Against Mortgage Lender Tossed Out

LOS ANGELES - In a case that may serve as a bellwether for how courts will treat credit-crisis litigation, a federal judge in Los Angeles has dismissed a securities fraud suit against Pasadena-based Indymac Bancorp, one of the country's largest mortgage lenders.

By Gabe Friedman
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      LOS ANGELES - In a case that may serve as a bellwether for how courts will treat credit-crisis litigation, a federal judge in Los Angeles has dismissed a securities fraud suit against Pasadena-based Indymac Bancorp, one of the country's largest mortgage lenders.
      The plaintiffs likely will return with a second amended complaint. But in a t...

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