Metairie, LA
Debt collection Lawyer at Metairie, LA
Practice Areas: Debt Collection, Banking ... +2 more
OUTCOME: Bank that had inadvertantly cancelled mortgage ranked first on the property
Court determined that the act of correction statute could be used to amend an act of cancellation of a mortgage, which would reinstate the mortgage, so long as no one reasonably relied on the original ... cancellation
OUTCOME: Judgment owner lost the right to a judicial mortgage
The clerk of court improperly indexed a judgment in the conveyance index, rather than the mortgage index. Court ruled the judgment did not create a judicial mortgage on the property
OUTCOME: Customer's claim against bank dismissed on summary judgment.
Bank customer could not recover against bank, based on allegation that bank officer had assisted in misrepresentation of character of subdivision on which bank had a mortgage, after customer purchased ... lot in subdivision and bank extended customer loan to purchase the lot.
OUTCOME: Motion to convert denied, due to debtor's bad faith
Prior to bankruptcy, debtor misrepresented his identity to creditor. Post-bankruptcy, debtor withheld and spent property of the estate, and did not report collection of accounts due to estate. Debtor ... attempted to convert Ch. 7 to Ch. 13. Court held that debtor was in bad faith, Motion to convert denied. Discharge subsequently denied.
OUTCOME: Customer's claim against credit union dismissed, on motion for summary judgment
Customer could not recover against credit union, based on the claim that the credit union did not force place insurance on debtor's property, to the full value of the property. Property was damaged by ... Hurricane Katrina.
OUTCOME: Non-final judgment of Colorado federal court was inferior in rank to final Louisiana federal court judgment
Ranking issue between two judgment holders. One judgment holder had registered a Colorado federal court judgment in a Louisiana federal court, but the judgment was not a final judgment. Judgment had ... no rank in Louisiana.
OUTCOME: Texas judgment owner collected on her judgment
Suit to make Texas judgment executory in Louisiana. Court determined that the defendants had submitted to the jurisdiction of the Texas court, and were bound by the judgment that awarded punative dama ... ges
OUTCOME: Lien claimants allowed to assert their maritime lien claims against vessel
Bank had foreign perferred ship mortgage on vessel. After trial, maritime lien claimants for necessaries attempeted to intervene. Court of appeal held the lien claimants had the right to intervene.
OUTCOME: Trustee not allowed to revoke transfers to creditor
Complaint by trustee to avoid transfers to creditor under Louisiana revocatory action, and trustee's strongarm powers. Trustee could not prove that any creditor existed whose debt arose prior to the t ... ransfers, based on creditor's showing that amounts outstanding on revolving VISA accounts, had been paid to zero.
OUTCOME: Subrogee of claims under Public Works Act allowed to recover on claims
Lender, who took a conventional subrogation of claims of materialmen and subcontractor under the Louisiana Public Works Act could properly enforce the privileges allowed by law to those materialmen and ... subcontractor, as against public authority and Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association, which assumed the liability of the contractor's payment bond surety, which became insolvent.
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