Mortgage Electronic Registration v. Azize

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that the owner and holder of a note and mortgage has standing to proceed with a mortgage foreclosure action
• finding that party seeking to foreclose need not be beneficial owner of the note
• MERS had standing to enforce the note and foreclose the mortgage even though it lacked the beneficial interest in the note
• court held that a party who was not the beneficial owner of a mortgage had standing to foreclose upon the mortgage
• MERS had standing to enforce the note and foreclose the mortgage even though it lacked the beneficial interest in the note
• “[A]. servicer may be considered a party in interest to commence legal action as long as the trustee joins or ratifies its action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).