A lawyer who allegedly took $15,000 from a client for his own use, was charged with criminal trespass for attempts to enter the Kane County Jail without proper attorney credentials, and then allegedly repeatedly threatened judges and other Kane County justice officials, accusing them of engaging in a racist conspiracy against him, was among five lawyers disbarred by the Illinois Supreme Court. The court suspended 14 others.
Cook County has standing to bring a legal action against banks for alleged racially discriminatory and predatory lending practices, meaning one of the country’s largest lenders will need to continue to mount its defense against the lawsuit in court, a federal judge has ruled. In an opinion issued Sept. 30 in federal court in Chicago, U.S. District Judge John Z. Lee brushed aside arguments advanced by British bank HSBC Holdings Plc in its bid to derail Cook County’s lawsuit brought under the fed
A federal judge has refused to rule Wells Fargo did not engage in lending practices blamed for allegedly exacerbating a plague of home mortgage foreclosures among minority homebuyers. But the judge still has tossed a lawsuit brought against the lender by Cook County over the bank’s alleged predatory lending practices.
A federal judge has cleared Cook County to continue to press its case against Bank of America over the county’s allegations the lender discriminated against racial and ethnic minority borrowers through predatory lending practices in which it doled out home mortgage loans subject to higher interest rates and other more expensive terms for borrowers of color than for white borrowers, devastating the
