The court of appeals reversed a grant of summary judgment in
favor of Deutsche Bank and other defendants.
Galope adequately alleged that she had standing to sue on her LIBOR-based
consumer protection and related claims: she alleged that she wouldn’t have
taken her loan had she known of defendants’ manipulation of LIBOR. Her cognizable injury occurred when she
bought the loan, not when she paid manipulation-affected interest. The sale of her house was rescinded, but that
didn’t moot her claims for damages. (Certain
defendants apparently sold her house in violation of the automatic stay in
bankruptcy; Galope sufficiently alleged a violation of the covenant of good
faith and fair dealing because there was sufficient evidence to support a
reasonable inference that they had notice of the automatic stay when they
executed the trustee’s sale of the home.)
Judge Nguyen dissented in part on standing grounds. Galope didn’t allege loss from deceptive
conduct because her payments were never affected—“she paid a fixed interest
rate and defaulted before the allegedly manipulated LIBOR rate went into effect
on her loan; she then was granted a loan modification with a (lower) fixed
interest rate that likewise was unrelated to the LIBOR rate and defaulted
again.” She might have alleged but-for
causation, but she didn’t allege loss from the manipulation, so her injury was
too attenuated for Article III standing.
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Finally!
As Atty Lenore Albert had argued the Loan was a LIBOR loan from the beginning. What she was paying had no relation to what was owed.
Hon. Judge Richard Paez, blared at the defendants that Galope committed to pay them for 30 years! (Unaware that she was bound to fail because of the LIBOR rate trap that she had bit into)
It was true that she defaulted 2x. ( first because of an illness, 2nd because she realized the scam) But what was not made clear here was that at each of those times she defaulted, insurance claims from credit default swaps were triggered. The amount gained by the banks at each default event is equal to 30 times her mortgage payment!
Credit default bets were made against her by the very same banks who gave her the loan!
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