Pair From New York Bench Hailed For Meritorious Service In Home Foreclosure Cases

POPULAR(1) announced the year-end recipients of its bi-annual "Restore Integrity Award." Among the recipients are two New York judges who have received past mention here:

• Judge Arthur M. Schack for his appropriately strict scrutiny of foreclosure cases before him and corresponding mantra, “(i)f you are going to take away someone’s house, everything should be legal and correct.”

• Judge Arlen Spinner for his bold step of preempting $525,000 in mortgage payments demanded by a California bank “so as to deter it from imposing further mortifying abuse” on a Long Island couple appearing before him in the underlying foreclosure dispute.

POPULAR notes that these judges "[r]esisted powerful private interests without waiting for a groundswell of public support for their actions.”

Source: Judges Dominate Group’s Year-end “Restore Integrity Award”.

(1) According to its website, Power Over Poverty Under Laws of America Restored (POPULAR) is an association of public interest attorneys and law school graduates committed to helping poor and other disadvantaged people access affordable and competent legal representation, important civil and criminal justice system reforms, as well as appropriate judicial oversight.