Richard Bell v. Recontrust Company

MEMORANDUM

Plaintiffs-Appellants Robert and Sally Kelley, Michael F. McKeon, Nigel Rudlin, and Shane Snyder (“Plaintiffs”) filed suit against Defendants-Appellees ReconTrust Company, N.A., Bank of America, N.A., and Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. (“Defendants”) regarding foreclosure proceedings against Plaintiffs’ properties. This action is the second such lawsuit brought by Plaintiffs in connection with the properties and the procedural history of Plaintiffs’ original lawsuits is somewhat convoluted. While certain of Plaintiffs’ claims in the original suits were joined in a multi-district case (“MDL”) in the District of Arizona, some of the claims at issue, to the extent that they involved conduct related to loan origination and were not strictly MERS-related, remained in Nevada federal district court. See In Re: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems (MERS) Litigation, No. 2:09-md-02119-JAT (D.Ariz., filed December 7, 2009). We affirmed the judgment of the district court on the issues relevant to this appeal in In Re: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems (MERS) Litigation, 754 F.3d 772 (9th Cir.2014), though we reversed the district court’s judgment and remanded the case to…