Federal National Mortgage Ass'n v. Fitzgerald (In Re Fitzgerald)

How courts have described this case

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• holding that claim preclusion doctrines were inapplicable since, among other reasons, a fraudulent transfer claim was not and could not have been litigated in a prior foreclosure action
• “[The foreclosure court’s] power [to order foreclosure by sale when neither party moves for foreclosure by sale] is discretionary (rather than mandatory
• “In cases where there is equity in the property but foreclosure by sale has not been ordered, a longer redemption period may be set by the foreclosure court in its discretion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).