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Consumer Finance

Gov. Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2424, a bill that will expand upon California’s Homeowner Bill of Rights

On September 20th, Gov. Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2424, a bill that will expand upon California’s Homeowner Bill of Rights statutory regime and add even further restrictions on nonjudicial foreclosure proceedings in the state. The bill contains three critical revisions to existing…

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The following summaries are of recent published decisions of the California appellate courts, the Ninth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. The summaries are presented without regard to whether Severson & Werson represented a party in the case.

California Appellate Tracker

Rose Court, LLC v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc. (9th Cir. 2024) 119 F.4th 679

Four requirements must be met to trigger the federal two-dismissal rule (FRCivP 41(a)(1)(B)): (1) the plaintiff voluntarily dismissed an action in either state or federal court, (2) thereafter the plaintiff voluntarily dismissed an action pending in federal court, (3) the two dismissals concerned the same claim, and (4) the plaintiff seeks to raise the twice-dismissed claim again in federal court. …

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