Higher Court Agrees to Hear Credit Suisse Appeal of Judges Approval of Class Action in MBS Litigation
December 7, 2012
A federal appeals court has agreed to hear Credit Suisses appeal of a lower court ruling which gave the go-ahead for a group of investors in an IndyMac Bank MBS to proceed as a class in its suit against the lender. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said last week it would hear Credit Suisses appeal of a Manhattan federal judges ruling in June which granted a December 2010 request for class certification to investors as they allege Credit Suisse misled them about the quality of toxic loans underlying a $642 million MBS offering in 2006. The plaintiffs claim...