January 14, 2013
A California federal judge on Thursday dismissed a multidistrict litigation member case accusing several Bank of America Corp. units of misrepresenting nearly $193 million in mortgage-backed securities, ruling the mutual fund manager suing the bank had brought its claims too late.
December 18, 2012
The claims of a mutual fund group suing Countrywide Financial Corp. for misrepresenting the quality of mortgage-backed securities are time-barred because it knew of problems in the MBS market more than three years before filing suit in March, Countrywide told a California judge Tuesday, urging that the case be thrown out.