SCOTUS Sides With City of Miami in Predatory Lending Case. The Supreme Court last week issued a narrow decision in favor of the City of Miami in a case stemming from losses the municipality claimed it suffered from predatory mortgages. Industry analysts are divided on what the ruling means for lenders... Goldman Sachs Continues Progress on Consumer-Relief Obligation Under Mortgage Settlements. Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs is more than one third of the way towards meeting its $1.8 billion consumer-relief obligation under the April 11, 2016, mortgage-related settlements it reached with the U.S. Department of Justice and the states of California, Illinois and New York, according to retired Boston University law professor Eric Green, the independent monitor of the consumer-relief portions of the agreements ...