Alabama. The U.S. District Court for Alabama’s Eastern Division recently dismissed the borrowers’ counterclaim against Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. and Merscorp in response to a Freddie Mac eviction action. In Freddie Mac v. Brooks, the government-sponsored enterprise filed an eviction action against the borrowers after the completed foreclosure sale. The borrowers responded by filing a counterclaim against MERS, Merscorp and Freddie, claiming wrongful foreclosure and alleging that the mortgage was invalid and unenforceable because