Maryland High Court To Address Constitutionality Of State Foreclosure Notification Requirements

In Maryland, The Baltimore Sun reports:

• Judges on Maryland's highest court yesterday suggested they could intervene to change the notification procedure for foreclosures, which have ballooned as more people took out loans they couldn't afford and lenders made deals they couldn't keep. "The argument that this court change its rules in light of changing circumstances in the mortgage industry" could be persuasive," Judge Dale R. Cathell told an attorney arguing a foreclosure case before him yesterday in the Maryland Court of Appeals.

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• Yesterday's case looked at whether the foreclosure notification process in Maryland met the due process requirements of the Constitution. [...] The case involves [Maryland] homeowner Joyce Griffin, the Pasadena resident who says she first found out her home had been foreclosed in May 2006, when the new owner tacked a handwritten note to her front door.

For more, see High court takes up foreclosure notification (Judge hints procedure may be too quick).

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