First big victim of 2nd Circuit’s MBS standing opinion: JPMorgan
Earlier this month, when the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling in a Goldman Sachs case that redefined standing inclass actions involving mortgage-backed securities, I questioned how much impact the opinion would have, given that we’re four years into MBS class litigation. Sure, the 2nd Circuit opened the door to much broader MBS classes when it held that name plaintiffs can pursue claims on behalf of all the trusts backed by mortgages originated by the same lenders as those they invested in. But I wondered, as a practical matter, whether the ruling was too late to help most MBS class claimants, since most of their cases have long since crossed the threshold of standing.
Now we know that for at least one defendant — JPMorgan Chase — the newly widened definition of standing came all too soon. On Friday, U.S. Senior District Judge Edward Korman of Brooklyn issued an order drastically expanding the claims for which the name plaintiff in an MBS case against JPMorgan, the Mississippi Public Employees’ Retirement System (MissPERS), has standing to sue.
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