{"id":726,"date":"2009-10-01T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=726"},"modified":"2023-12-21T17:17:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T17:17:29","slug":"judge-rejects-foreclosures-for-failure-to-prove-ownership-or-to-comply-with-formalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2009\/10\/01\/judge-rejects-foreclosures-for-failure-to-prove-ownership-or-to-comply-with-formalities\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge rejects foreclosures for failure to prove ownership or to comply with formalities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Justice Arthur Sacks of the New York Supreme (trial) Court dismisses foreclosure actions when the mortgagee fails to prove ownership of the mortgage or has otherwise failed to comply with the formalities of the recording, property transfer, and foreclosure process as required by state law.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/31\/nyregion\/31judge.html?_r=1&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=%22michael%20powell%22%20&amp;%20%22little%20judge%22&amp;st=cse\" target=\"_blank\">read article<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/mortgages\/\" rel=\"tag\">Mortgages<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Arthur Sacks of the New York Supreme (trial) Court dismisses foreclosure actions when the mortgagee fails to prove ownership of the mortgage or has otherwise failed to comply with the formalities of the recording, property transfer, and foreclosure process as required by state law.\u00a0read article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mortgages"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}