Singletary v. SWBC Mortgage Corporation

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is void for failure to record the transfer in county property records, vitiating his indebtedness. However, he relies heavily on AI- hallucinated case law, and his theory finds no support in our actual case law. 2 Further failure to check the accuracy of cited authority before filing with the Court may result in sanctions. 3 Singletary also raises several arguments which were not asserted below in his Amended Complaint or his opposition to Defendants’ motion to dismiss. For example, he argues that (1) he received inconsistent statements about the “active” status of his loan which violates federal statutory servicing requirements, and (2) he was deprived of his Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial. These contentions are not persuasive, and again Singletary relies predominantly on non-existent case law. Moreover, the arguments were not developed before the district court and are therefore not properly before us. 4 Finally, we see no abuse of discretion 5 in the district court’s finding that _____________________ See Cervantes v. New Century Mortg. Corp., 633 F. App’x 290, 291 (5th Cir. 2016) (per curiam) (“[T]he failure to record a transfer of a mortgage note does not