Mitchell Senft’s outrage directed at the court’s new foreclosure rule (“Foreclosure Rule Is ‘Simply Insane,’” Oct. 26) is misplaced: it should be directed at “robosigners,” not Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman.
The new rule does nothing more than require attorneys for foreclosing plaintiffs to do what they are already obligated to do, satisfy themselves that there is some truth to the allegations contained in the complaints that they, as officers of the court, are filing. While it is regrettable that a rule of this kind is necessary to remind the plaintiff foreclosure mill law firms that they have an ethical obligation to assure themselves that there is some basis for the lawsuits that they are bringing—and that the parties for whom they are bringing them actually own the claims they are pursuing—the fact is that they need such a reminder, as the recent press reports concerning “robo-signed” affidavits have confirmed.
