Florida AG Seeks Rehearing In Foreclosure Mill Probe; Earlier Court Ruling Quashed Subpoena Served On Law Firm

In West Palm Beach, Florida, The Palm Beach Post reports:

• Florida's attorney general wants a Palm Beach County judge to reconsider his ruling last week prohibiting it from investigating one of the state's large foreclosure law firms. The request for a new ruling or a rehearing in front of Judge Jack S. Cox was made Monday, one week after Cox quashed an attorney general's subpoena seeking information from the Shapiro & Fishman law firm into its foreclosure practices.

• In his ruling, Cox said it was the Florida Bar's responsibility to investigate misconduct at law firms, not the attorney general's office. But in its request for rehearing, the office included an affidavit from the Florida Bar's director of lawyer regulation in which he says only individual attorneys can be investigated by the Bar, not entire firms.

For more, see Florida attorney general seeks rehearing in foreclosure investigation.