FNMA v. DESCHAINE

Docket: Pen-16-316.

170 A.3d 230 (2017)

2017 ME 190

FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION v. Patricia W. DESCHAINE, et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: September 7, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey J. Hardiman, Esq. , and Dean J. Wagner, Esq. , Shechtman Halperin Savage, LLP, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and Marissa I. Delinks, Esq. (orally), Hinshaw and Culbertson LLP, Boston, Massachusetts, for appellant Federal National Mortgage Association.

James F. Cloutier, Esq. , Cloutier, Conley & Duffett, P.A., Portland, for appellees Patricia W. Deschaine and Paul J. Deschaine.

L. Scott Gould, Esq. , Cape Elizabeth, for amici curiae National Consumer Law Center and National Association of Consumer Advocates.

Jeffrey Gentes, Esq. , Jerome Frank Legal Services Corporation, New Haven, Connecticut, for amicus curiae Jerome Frank Legal Services Corporation.

Thomas A. Cox, Esq. (orally), Portland, for amicus curiae Maine Attorneys Saving Homes.

Catherine R. Connors, Esq. , and John J. Aromando, Esq. , Pierce Atwood LLP, Portland, for amici curiae Maine Bankers Association and The National Mortgage Bankers Association.

Frank D'Alessandro, Esq. , Pine Tree Legal Assistance, Portland, for amicus curiae Pine Tree Legal Assistance.

Gerald F. Petruccelli, Esq., amicus curiae pro se

John A. Doonan, Esq. , and Reneau J. Longoria, Esq. , Doonan, Graves & Longoria, LLC, Beverly, Massachusetts, for amicus curiae Doonan, Graves & Longoria.

Panel: ALEXANDER, MEAD, GORMAN, JABAR, HJELM, and HUMPHREY, JJ.


[¶ 1] In 2012, a complaint for residential foreclosure filed by Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) against Patricia W. Deschaine and Paul J. Deschaine was dismissed with prejudice because the parties failed to comply with the court's pretrial order. Fannie Mae did not seek post-judgment or appellate relief, and so...

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