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EUGENE DIVISION
Plaintiff, ORDER
vs.
Defendants.
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against them.
~ TILA
Plaintiff withdraws his TILA rescission claim and the claim for
dismissed.
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lh. RESPA
other reasons, defendants contend that the RESPA claim fails because
FSB, 410 F.Supp.2d 374, 383 (D.N.J. 2006) ("alleging a breach of RESPA
duties alone does not state a claim under RESPA. Plaintiffs must, at a
minimum, also allege that the breach resulted in actual damages .... See
12 U.S.C. § 2605 (f) (1) (A) ("Whoever fails to comply with this section
shall be liable to the borrower ... [for] any actual damages to the
98-2457, 2000 WL 536666, *12, 2000 u.S. Dist. LEXIS 5705 at *40
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Plaintiff contends that under the Oregon Trust Deed Act, MERS and
exhibit D at p. 2.
not permitted under Oregon trust deed law because it allows assignment
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necessarily mean that the arrangement violates the Oregon Trust Deed
Under ORS 86.705 (1) a '" Beneficiary' means the person named or
trustee under ORS 86.790 (1) (d)." Plaintiff contends that MERS cannot
meet this definition because there is no evidence that the trust deed
lBut see, In re Allman, 2010 WL 3366405, at *10 (Bankr. D. Or. Aug. 24, 2010). There,
the court considered the meaning of "beneficiary" under Oregon's trust deed statute as "the
person named or otherwise designated in a trust deed as the person for whose benefit the trust
deed is given ...." ORS 86.705(1). The court then concluded, after examining language of the
trust deed that is similar to the language contained in the deed of trust in this case, that MERS
was not "in any real sense ofthe word, particularly as defmed in ORS 86.705(1), the beneficiary
of the trust deed." Id.
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(1) The trust deed, any assignments of the trust deed by the
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MERS who acts as the lender's agent under the trust deed. The record
here does not demonstrate that all the transfers have been recorded. 2
CONCLUSION
For the reasons stated above, the motion for summary judgment
I~/ .e.
2Plaintiff asserts several transfers of beneficial rights have occurred including transfer
from First Magnus Financial Corp. to Residential Funding Company, LLC on or about March 27,
2007; transfer from Residential Funding Company to RFC Trustee 02 on or about May 4,2007;
and transfer from RFC Trustee 02 to Deutsche Bank National Trust Company Qn or about May 5,
2008. Defendant fails to demonstrate proper recoding of these and other transfers, if any.
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