High-speed Courts Offer Answer To Foreclosures

By GRETCHEN MORGENSON and GERALDINE FABRIKANT, New York Times
Sat, 09/04/2010 - 9:24am

Florida has set up foreclosures-only courts to reduce the state’s huge backlog of cases, but borrowers’ lawyers are critical of the process.

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