Take Notice: The U.S. Supreme Court sided with consumers in interpreting a Truth in Lending Act provision that gives borrowers the right to rescind a mortgage within three years, the Supreme Court Brief reports. The homeowners said they only had to give notice, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit ruled for Bank of America in determining that they had to file a lawsuit. The language of the law “leaves no doubt” that only notification and not litigation is required within three years, Justice Antonin Scalia said.
No Pardon: The lawyer who prosecuted actor Mark Wahlberg 26 years ago for a violent racial assault he committed as a teenager says he should not be pardoned. “I’m glad Mark Wahlberg has turned his life around. I’ve read that Hoa Trinh has forgiven him. But a public pardon is an extraordinary public act, requiring extraordinary circumstances because it essentially eliminates all effects of having ever been convicted,” wrote former Massachusetts assistant attorney general Judith Beals in an op-ed in the Boston Globe.
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