At this juncture, this allegation plausibly supports a finding of willful noncompliance. Notably, Oliver's analysis did not consider foreclosure information because the data produced did not include dates of foreclosure sales. A settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit alleging Nationstar Mortgage LLC ("Nationstar" or "Defendant") violated the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act ("RESPA") by failing to adhere to its requirements with respect to its customers' loss mitigation applications and that Nationstar violated Maryland law by not timely responding A code is also added to LSAMS to put a hold on foreclosure proceedings. Id. Local R. 105.6. Jennings' office said that these new standards are more robust than existing law and will be in place for three years starting in January 2021. Thus, based on his report and experience, Oliver concludes that Nationstar "failed to comply" with Regulation X and that it is possible to "identify violations" of Regulation X "using the methodologies" he described, without the necessity of a file-by-file review. When each event occurseither the mailing of a letter or the changing of a code or substatusthe date is recorded in the databases. 1024.41(b)(1), (b)(2)(i)(B), and (c)(1)(ii) and Md. Robinson v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC Complaint with jury demand against Nationstar Mortgage, LLC. 1994) (noting that a single common issue is sufficient to meet the commonality requirement). Specifically, if a loss mitigation application is received "45 days or more before a foreclosure sale," the loan servicer must provide a notice to the borrower "in writing within 5 days" of receiving it in which the servicer acknowledges receipt of the application and states whether the "application is either complete or incomplete." The next day, Nationstar sent a letter noting that the August 25 application had been received and requesting additional information. Nationstar Call Settlement Administrator. Nationstar argues that it should be granted summary judgment on all of the RESPA claims because Nationstar was required to comply with Regulation X only as to a borrower's first loss mitigation application, and the Robinsons' March 7, 2014 application was not their first loan modification application. Likewise, the articulated concern that Nationstar would not be required to respond to loss mitigation applications filed within a certain number of days of a foreclosure sale, can be addressed through the provision of data relating to the dates of scheduled foreclosure sales. Id. In Baez v. Specialized Loan Servicing, LLC, 709 F. App'x 979 (11th Cir. Tagatz v. Marquette Univ., 861 F.2d 1040, 1042 (7th Cir. Since the Rule 23(a) factors are satisfied, the Court will now consider whether the Rule 23(b)(3) predominance and superiority considerations are met. Where the results of such an analysis would apply to any individual claim, it would be highly inefficient and wasteful to require duplicative analysis in each such case. Am. 2017), the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that postage costs incurred by the plaintiff to send the "initial request for information is not a cost to the borrower 'as a result of the failure' to comply with a RESPA obligation," because a violation has not occurred and will not "necessarily occur" at the time the plaintiff paid the postage. Instead, he analyzed certain data fields that were returned by the scripts written by a different expert. Nationstar's reliance on Accrued Financial Services v. Prime Retail, Inc., 298 F.3d 291 (4th Cir. If the initial application is not complete, a different Remedy Star substatus notation and LSAMS code are entered, and a letter is created and sent to the borrower asking for the required documents. P. 56(a); Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317, 322 (1986). First, as a threshold matter, the Court notes that in ruling on Nationstar's Motion for Summary Judgment, it will grant judgment in favor of Nationstar as to Mrs. Robinson's claims, Mr. Robinson's RESPA claims under 12 C.F.R. The Motion will be granted as to all of Tamara Robinson's claims and as to Demetrius Robinson's claims under 12 C.F.R. The loan is then evaluated for loan modification options. To establish an MCPA violation under this provision, a plaintiff must establish that (1) the defendant engaged in an unfair or deceptive practice or misrepresentation; (2) the plaintiff relied upon the representation; and (3) doing so caused the plaintiff actual injury. 1024.41(a). The fact that each borrower must individually show damages under 12 U.S.C. RESPA's implementing regulations, codified at 12 C.F.R. 1024.41 These events will be represented by discrete data points in Nationstar's databases, such that these violations may be proved through that data. Commonality requires that a class have "questions of law or fact common to the class" which are capable of classwide resolution, such that the determination of the truth or falsity of the common issue "will resolve an issue that is central to the validity of each one of the claims in one stroke." THEODORE D. CHUANG United States District Judge. See Stillmock v. Weis Markets, Inc., 385 F. App'x 267, 275 (4th Cir. After attempts to modify their loan failed, the Robinsons filed a Class Action Complaint against Defendant Nationstar Mortgage, LLC ("Nationstar") for alleged violations of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act ("RESPA"), 12 U.S.C. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, 564 U.S. 338, 348-49 (2011) ("[A] class representative must be part of the class and possess the same interest and suffer the same injury as the class members." The proposed settlement with the CFPB requires Nationstar to pay $73 million in restitution to affected borrowers, as well as a $1.5 million civil penalty to the agency. . USCA4 Appeal: 21-1087 Doc: 38 Filed: 06/15/2021 Pg: 9 of 33 On July 17, 2014, Nationstar informed Mr. Robinson by letter that he did not qualify for a HAMP modification and that since the March 14 loan modification offer had not been accepted, it was withdrawn. See D. Md. Because there are, at a minimum, disputed issues of fact as to what fees, administrative costs, and interest constitute damages, the Court will deny the motion for summary judgment on the issue of actual damages. 1993) (quoting Blum v. Yaretsky, 457 U.S. 991, 1001 n.13 (1982)). Motor Freight System, Inc. v. Rodriguez, 431 U.S. 395, 403 (1977))). If you were contacted on your cell phone by a company via an . Finally, the Court notes that a decision to certify a class is based on whether or not a putative class satisfies the Rule 23 factors, not on a preliminary assessment of the underlying merits of the claim. 12 C.F.R. 1024.41(c)(1)(ii), which requires a servicer to respond to a completed loan modification application; or Md. Indeed, Nationstar does not seriously contest the commonality prong. cause[d] damages retroactively" and "transmogrifie[d]" the costs that predate the RESPA violation into damages. The record is undisputed that as of September 25, 2017, Nationstar had neither started foreclosure proceedings nor moved for foreclosure judgment on the Robinsons' home. 1024.41(f), (g). 1024.41(c) and (d) impose obligations on a loan servicer once it receives a "complete loss mitigation application" and once the completed application is denied. The Deed specifies that a person who signs it but "does not execute the note" is a co-signer of the Deed in order to mortgage and convey that person's interest in the Property under the terms of the Deed, but "is not personally obligated to pay the sums secured by this Security Instrument," and her consent is not required to alter the terms of the Deed or the Note. Id. While class members would not be eligible for statutory damages unless actual damages are shown, see 12 U.S.C. 2018); Renfroe v. Nationstar Mortg., LLC, 822 F.3d 1241, 1247 n.4 (11th Cir. See Md. R. Civ. Code Ann., Com. Although each class member must individually show that they suffered "actual damages" under 12 U.S.C. Throughout discovery, Nationstar repeatedly stated that it could not produce the data on loss mitigation or loan modification applications from its databases in the form requested by the Robinsons. As a result, the Robinsons' claim that Nationstar violated certain Regulation X procedures with respect to their loan modification application and those of the class members. The entry under "objected" acts as a unique identifier for an electronic file, but it does not contain information about the file's substance and could in fact contain multiple submissions or documents relating to one borrower. A dispute of material fact is only "genuine" if sufficient evidence favoring the nonmoving party exists for the trier of fact to return a verdict for that party. Once the documents are received, the Remedy Star substatus and LSAMS code are changed again to mark the application complete. Similarly, though the precise nature of the fees imposed was not specified, it is reasonable to infer that some were attributable to delays linked to RESPA violations. Regulation X's effective date reflected "an intent not to apply it to conduct occurring prior to that date." The fee arrangement will be considered as an issue potentially affecting the credibility, rather than the admissibility, of the expert testimony. It will be otherwise denied. 17-0982, 2018 WL 4111938, at *5-6 (M.D. P. 23(b)(3). Marchese v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 917 F. Supp. Nationstar further argues that summary judgment must be entered in its favor on the Robinsons' claims under 12 C.F.R. Since it is the plaintiff's burden to establish that the requirements of Rule 23 have been met and Mr. Robinson has failed to do so, the Motion for Class Certification will be denied as to any claims that Nationstar violated 12 C.F.R. In Washington v. Am. See Baby Neal for and by Kanter v. Casey, 43 F.3d 48, 56-57 (3d Cir. 3d at 1014. See supra parts I.B.1, I.B.3, I.C.1. Code Ann., Com. 8:2014cv03667 - Document 18 (D. Md. Tagatz, 861 F.2d at 1042; cf. A "borrower" may enforce the provisions of Regulation X pursuant to 12 U.S.C. As for typicality, the named plaintiff must be "typical" of the class, such that that the class representative's claim and defenses are "typical of the claims or defenses of the class" in that prosecution of the claim will "simultaneously tend to advance the interests of the absent class members."

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