Foreclosure lawsuit to get another chance

Michael Boyter walked out of San Francisco’s federal courthouse Friday encouraged that a judge had left the door open for him to continue a legal battle against the foreclosure of his Bethel Island home.

“I have a chance to keep fighting,” he said in a heavy downpour. “Not only for me, but for the thousands of other families who are out here in the rain like this and are hurting.”

U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston dismissed his case – but gave him leave to amend it, basically encouraging him to gather more evidence and case law and refile.

“I’m struggling with the consequences if there were irregularities in the (foreclosure) transaction,” the judge said in court.

Illston, known for her thorough research, said her ruling would lay out the points Boyter needs to better substantiate in a new filing.

“I’ll put in the cases I’ve been reading,” said the judge, who has presided over such high-profile cases as the BALCO sports-doping trial and Barry Bonds perjury trial.

Boyter’s case may be less splashy, but it deals with concerns shared by many thousands of borrowers who lost their homes.

His lawsuit focuses on the types of paperwork problems uncovered in the nationwide robosigning scandal and in a February audit of San Francisco foreclosures that revealed numerous procedural missteps.

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