Opinion

Sturdivant v. BAC Home Loans Servicing

  • 159 So. 3d 31
Court
Supreme Court of Alabama
Filed
Sep 13, 2013
Status
Published
Author
Bryan
On the bench
Bolin, Bryan, Himself, Main, Moore, Murdock, Parker, Shaw, Stuart, Wise
Cited by
44 cases

holding that *205the right of the foreclosing entity to conduct a foreclosure sale must be proven in order to show that the buyer at a foreclosure sale has superior legal title and a cause of action to eject the debtor

How later courts described this case

  • holding that *205the right of the foreclosing entity to conduct a foreclosure sale must be proven in order to show that the buyer at a foreclosure sale has superior legal title and a cause of action to eject the debtor
  • holding that the right of the foreclosing entity to conduct a foreclosure sale must be proven in order to show that the buyer at a foreclosure sale has superior legal title and a cause of action to eject the debtor
  • noting that " '[l]ack of statutory authorization best supports analysis as the lack of a claim upon which relief can be granted, … not a claim over which the forum court lacks subject matter jurisdiction' " (quoting Jerome A. Hoffman, The Malignant Mystique of "Standing," 73 Ala. Law. 360, 362 (2012))
  • holding that standing, as developed in Lujan, addressed only public-law cases and that applying it to private-law cases was error

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

BRYAN, Justice

(concurring in the result as to case no. 1110458).

I concur in the result as to case no. 1110458, and I agree with Justice Main’s special writing insofar as it addresses case no. 1110458. However, because I was a judge on the Court of Civil Appeals when it decided the underlying case, I have re-cused myself from consideration of case no. 1110373; therefore, insofar as that case is concerned, I am unable to comment on the main opinion or to join Justice Main’s special writing.

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