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Nationstar Mortg. LLC v. Las Vegas Dev. Grp.

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
Dec 13, 2019
No. 18-15837 (9th Cir. Dec. 13, 2019)

Opinion

No. 18-15837

12-13-2019

NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. LAS VEGAS DEVELOPMENT GROUP, LLC; AIRMOTIVE INVESTMENTS, LLC, Defendants-Appellants, and FALLS AT HIDDEN CANYON HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION; ABSOLUTE COLLECTION SERVICES, LLC, Defendants.


NOT FOR PUBLICATION

D.C. No. 2:15-cv-01287-RCJ-NJK MEMORANDUM Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada
Robert Clive Jones, District Judge, Presiding Submitted December 10, 2019 Pasadena, California Before: BEA, COLLINS, and BRESS, Circuit Judges.

This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.

The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). --------

Las Vegas Development Group, LLC and Airmotive Investments, LLC appeal the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Nationstar Mortgage LLC. We assume familiarity with the facts and procedural history and discuss them only as necessary to explain our decision.

The district court granted summary judgment to Nationstar based solely on the ground that, under Bourne Valley Court Trust v. Wells Fargo Bank, NA, 832 F.3d 1154 (9th Cir. 2016), the homeowners' association (HOA) foreclosed under a facially unconstitutional notice scheme. Id. at 1156. The Ninth Circuit recently held, however, that Nevada's HOA foreclosure scheme is not facially unconstitutional because our decision in Bourne Valley was based on a construction of Nevada law that the Nevada Supreme Court has since made clear was erroneous. See Bank of Am., N.A. v. Arlington W. Twilight Homeowners Ass'n, 920 F.3d 620, 623-24 (9th Cir. 2019) (recognizing that Bourne Valley "no longer controls the analysis" in light of SFR Investments Pool 1, LLC v. Bank of New York Mellon, 422 P.3d 1248 (Nev. 2018)).

The judgment in favor of Nationstar is therefore REVERSED. The case is remanded for further proceedings consistent with this memorandum disposition, including as to whether Nationstar's predecessor-in-interest properly tendered the superpriority amount of the HOA's lien and, if not, whether the failure to tender was nonetheless excused. The parties shall bear their own costs on appeal.


Summaries of

Nationstar Mortg. LLC v. Las Vegas Dev. Grp.

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
Dec 13, 2019
No. 18-15837 (9th Cir. Dec. 13, 2019)
Case details for

Nationstar Mortg. LLC v. Las Vegas Dev. Grp.

Case Details

Full title:NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. LAS VEGAS DEVELOPMENT…

Court:UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

Date published: Dec 13, 2019

Citations

No. 18-15837 (9th Cir. Dec. 13, 2019)

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