COLLINS v. MNUCHIN

No. 17-20364.

896 F.3d 640 (2018)

Patrick J. COLLINS; Marcus J. Liotta; William M. Hitchcock, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Steven T. MNUCHIN, Secretary, U.S. Department of Treasury; Department of the Treasury; Federal Housing Finance Agency; Melvin L. Watt, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 16, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Justin Cooper , Brian W. Barnes, Esq. , Peter A. Patterson , David H. Thompson , Cooper & Kirk, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC, Chad Flores, Esq. Beck Redden, L.L.P., Houston, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Abby Christine Wright , Gerard J. Sinzdak , Mark Bernard Stern, Esq. , U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division, Appellate Section, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees STEVEN T. MNUCHIN , SECRETARY, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY.

Howard N. Cayne , Ian S. Hoffman , Robert J. Katerberg , Dirk Phillips, Esq. , Asim Varma, Esq. , Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY, MELVIN L. WATT.

Before STEWART, Chief Judge, and HAYNES and WILLETT, Circuit Judges.


A decade ago, the United States was engulfed in perhaps the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Toxic mortgage debt had poisoned the global financial system. Hoping to reverse a national housing-market meltdown, Congress passed the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 ("HERA"), Pub. L. No. 110...

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