PLYMOUTH COUNTY, IOWA v. MERSCORP, INC.

No. 13-2334.

774 F.3d 1155 (2014)

PLYMOUTH COUNTY, IOWA, Darin J. Raymond, by and through agent of Plaintiff-Appellant v. MERSCORP, INC.; Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.; Bank of America N.A.; BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP; CitiMortgage, Inc.; EverHome Mortgage Company Defendants-Appellees. GMAC-Residential Funding Corporation Defendant HSBC Bank USA, N.A.; JPMorgan Chase Bank; Chase Home Finance LLC; EMC Mortgage Corporation; SunTrust Mortgage, Inc.; Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.; Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Inc.; WMC Mortgage Corporation; John Doe, Defendants 1-100 Defendants-Appellees. Corinthian Mortgage Corporation Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: December 19, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Tangren , argued Chicago, IL, ( Edward J. Hershewe , Joplin, MO., Tim Dollar , Kansas City, MO., Adam J. Levitt , Chicago, IL., Michael S. Kilgore , Independence, MO., Patrick N. Murphy , Le Mars , IA., Shelly L. Friedland , New York, NY, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Thomas Hefferon , argued Washington, DC, ( Deborah Marie Tharnish , Des Moines, IA., Jay Eaton , Des Moines, IA., Alan E. Fredregill , Sioux City, IA., Jeffrey Raymond Mohrhauser, I , Sioux City, IA., John Thomas Clendenin , Des Moines, IA., Thomas Hefferon , Washington, DC., Lance W. Lange , Des Moines, IA., Kerrie Marie Murphy , West Des Moines, IA., Joseph Yenouskas , Washington, DC., Daniel W. Huitink , Phoenix, AZ., Sarah K. Franklin , Des Moines, IA., Lucia Nale , Chicago, IL., Robert M. Brochin , Miami, FL., Gregory J. Marshall , Phoenix, AZ., Thomas V. Panoff , Chicago, IL., Andrew R. Louis , Washington, DC., Matthew P. Previn , New York, NY, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before RILEY, Chief Judge, COLLOTON and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.


Plymouth County, on its own behalf and on behalf of all similarly situated counties in Iowa, brought suit in state court alleging that Appellees, various loan originators and servicers (Lenders), deprived the County of revenue by using the Mortgage Electronic Registration System (MERS) to avoid paying recording fees on...

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