May 01, 2026
A group of mortgage originators and several software companies told a Tennessee federal court that a proposed price-fixing class action should be tossed because the plaintiffs didn't plausibly allege that the originators used certain software for a nationwide price-fixing conspiracy involving residential mortgage rates.
October 07, 2025
A proposed class of homeowners has launched a sweeping class action against Rocket Mortgage, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and more than two dozen other mortgage lenders, accusing them of conspiring through Optimal Blue's pricing software to secretly share sensitive data and fix mortgage rates nationwide, allegedly inflating costs and deepening the U.S. housing affordability crisis.