Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Amber M. Hawkins, Galen Robinson, Colleen Daly, Legal Aid Society of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN; and William H. Crowder, Vildan A. Teske, Kathleen Finnegan Lamey, Crowder Teske, PLLP, St. Paul, MN, for plaintiffs.
Melissa Briggs, Eric Halperin, Daniel Mosteller, The Center for Responsible Lending, Washington D.C., of counsel for plaintiffs.
Robert J. Pratte, Sonya Braunschweig, DLA Piper U.S. LLP, Minneapolis, MN, for defendant Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.
Myron Orfield, Geneva Finn, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, for amici curiae Myron Orfield, Minneapolis Urban League, Jewish Community Action, and ACORN Housing Corporation.
Marc D. Simpson, David A. Applebaum, Leonard, Street and Deinard, Minneapolis, MN, for amici curiae American Land Title Association and Minnesota Land Title Association.
Supreme Court of Minnesota.
OPINION
ANDERSON, PAUL H., Justice.
This case comes to us as a certified question from the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. The reformulated question is:
Where an entity, such as defendant [Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.], serves as mortgagee of record as nominee for a lender and that lender's successors and assigns and there has been no assignment of the mortgage itself, is an assignment of the ownership...
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