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Facts

• The case involves a foreclosure action against Defendant Roger Saul, who appealed the denial of a motion to reconsider an award of summary judgment in favor of SunTrust Mortgage, Inc. The Defendant submitted a loan modification application as a basis for relief from judgment, which was initially incomplete and ultimately denied after supplementation.

Procedural History

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Parties' Submissions

• Defendant-Appellant: Argued that relief from the judgment should have been granted based on the submission of a loan modification application. Additionally, claimed that the Plaintiff engaged in fraud and tortious interference with business relations.
• Plaintiff-Appellee: The specific arguments of the Plaintiff-Appellee are not detailed in the provided text, but it can be inferred that the Plaintiff-Appellee argued for the affirmation of the summary judgment award in the foreclosure action.

Legal Issues

• Whether the Defendant-Appellant should have been granted relief from the judgment based on the submission of a loan modification application.
• Whether claims of fraud and tortious interference with business relations raised by the Defendant-Appellant provide a basis for relief from the judgment.

Disposition

• The Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of the motion to reconsider the award of summary judgment in favor of SunTrust Mortgage, Inc.

Reasons

• The Court, led by Chief Judge Linda M. Vanzi, with Judges Julie J. Vargas and Henry M. Bohnhoff concurring, found the Defendant-Appellant's arguments unpersuasive. The Court noted that the Defendant's loan modification application was initially incomplete and ultimately denied, with no basis presented for second-guessing this denial (para 3). Furthermore, the Court determined that the Defendant-Appellant's claims of fraud and tortious interference with business relations were not raised during the district court proceedings, thus providing no basis for relief (para 4). The decision to affirm was based on these findings and the precedent set in Charter Bank v. Francoeur, which concluded that neither HAMP nor equitable considerations precluded foreclosure proceedings from moving forward despite a loan modification application (para 3).