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WELLS FARGO BANK N.A. v. BOUTRIS

Nos. 03-16194, 03-16461, 03-16197.

419 F.3d 949 (2005)

WELLS FARGO BANK N.A.; Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Demetrios A. BOUTRIS, Defendant-Appellant. National City Bank of Indiana; National City Mortgage Co., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Demetrios A. Boutris, Defendant-Appellant. Wells Fargo Bank N.A.; Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Demetrios A. Boutris, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 12, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Virginia Jo Dunlap, Deputy Commissioner, Alan S. Weinger, Supervising Counsel, Judy L. Hartley, Senior Corporations Counsel, Kimberly L. Gauthier, Corporations Counsel, and Douglas M. Gooding, Corporations Counsel, California Department of Corporations, Los Angeles, California, for the defendant-appellant/cross-appellee.

William L. Stern, Severson & Werson, San Francisco, California, and E. Edward Bruce, Stuart C. Stock, Robert A. Long, Jr., and Keith A. Noreika, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., for the plaintiffs-appellees/cross-appellants.

Julie L. Williams, Acting Comptroller, Daniel P. Stipano, Acting Chief Counsel, L. Robert Griffin, Deputy Chief Counsel, and Horace G. Sneed, Director of Litigation, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

Edward P. Sangster and Dylan B. Carp, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP, San Francisco, California, for amicus curiae Quicken Loans Inc.

Before: REINHARDT, PAEZ, and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

BERZON, Circuit Judge:

In these cross-appeals concerning California's regulation of residential mortgage lenders, we decide two issues: First, does the National Bank Act ("Bank Act"), 12 U.S.C. §§ 21 et seq., preempt the California Commissioner of Corporations' ("the Commissioner") exercise of investigative and licensing authority over "operating subsidiaries" of national banks? Second, does section 501 of the Depository Institutions...

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