Jul 16, 2010
Low-Key Judge Raises the Roof With Foreclosure Rulings
With foreclosure filings rising sharply in New York state, several judges have developed reputations for discarding the rubber stamp to which many banks grew accustomed. Suffolk County Acting Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Arlen Spinner has recently issued several decisions that have made him a media darling for, as one paper put it, sticking it to “ruthless bankers.” Those decisions have also gotten the attention of banks and their attorneys