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Yesterday I Was Lying: Creeping Preclusion Of Reciprocal Fee Awards In Residential Foreclosure Litigation, Eric A. Zacks, Dustin A. Zacks

St. John's Law Review

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As a result of the high volume of foreclosure litigation in the wake of the Great Recession, scholars have explored several outgrowths of the foreclosure crisis, developing a burgeoning body of research. Scholars and commentators have authored studies about a wide variety of foreclosure-related topics, ranging from the disparate racial effects of the housing crisis to the many legislative and court-instituted policies enacted to ameliorate the harsh reality faced by financially distressed homeowners, all the way through books examining the aftermath of the crisis and lessons learned from the entire experience.

Our previous contributions to this evolving body of …