Hayes v. Federal National Mortgage Ass'n
Opinion of the Court
ORDER
Stanley Hayes defaulted on his home mortgage, and in- January 2013 an Illinois court entered a judgment of foreclosure in favor of the Federal National Mortgage Association. A judicial sale was conducted, and the state court approved the sale in September 2013. Hayes brought this action in federal court, ostensibly under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that the Federal National Mortgage Association violated the Constitution of the United States by filing the foreclosure action. The district court dismissed the suit on the defendant’s motion.
The plaintiffs complaint and appellate brief are familiar. Recently we have reviewed complaints and briefs identical in both wording and typeface (except for details about the homeowners’ addresses and mortgages). See Carter v. Homeward Residential, Inc., 794 F.3d 806 (7th Cir. 2015); Mimms v. U.S. Bank, N.A., 630 Fed.Appx. 627 (2016) (nonprecedential decision); Sturdivant v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc., 602 Fed.Appx. 351 (7th Cir. 2015) (nonprecedential decision). Each time we concluded that the complaints did not invoke -the district court’s subject-matter jurisdiction. The same is true for the plaintiffs complaint. His claims of constitutional violations are too insubstantial to set out a basis for federal-question jurisdiction, and his lawsuit was properly dismissed.
AFFIRMED.
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- Full Case Name
- Stanley D. HAYES v. FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION
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- Published