Complaint against Supreme Court justice, Maine [Video]

MAINE, USA — When Thomas Cox’s complaint against a Maine Supreme Judicial Court judge is decided, it will likely happen without his knowledge.

Cox, a longtime foreclosure attorney, made the unusual move of lodging a complaint against Associate Justice Catherine Connors in late January after the judge heard two consequential mortgage cases: Finch v. U.S. Bank, N.A., 5-2, and J.P. Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Corp. v. Moulton, 4-3, both eventually decided in the lender’s favor. 

For decades, Maine’s legal precedent prohibited banks from suing borrowers for defaulting on their loans a second time if the first case was dismissed because a proper notice of default was not issued. The precedent was upheld in two cases in 2017, Fannie Mae v. Deschaine and Pushard v. Bank of America.

The recent decisions in Finch and Moultonoverruled these rulings — upending precedent that foreclosure attorneys and housing advocates say was a …