Source article Tier B
National Mortgage News, Feds lose bid to terminate Lakeland Bank's redlining deal (Aug. 4, 2026)
Martinez, Andrew. 'Feds lose bid to terminate Lakeland Bank's redlining deal.' National Mortgage News, August 4, 2026.
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- nmn-lakeland-third-defeat-2026
- Type
- article
- Trust tier
- B
- Status
- published
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Trade-press coverage of the July 31, 2026 order. Used for one counted claim, quoted and attributed rather than asserted as WR’s own:
“The ruling marks the third defeat in the past year for feds seeking to overturn Biden-era redlining deals against lenders.”
The article references the ESSA Bank denial (E.D. Pa., July 2025, which Judge Cecchi’s order cites by name as United States v. Essa Bank & Tr.) among the prior defeats. WR verified the ESSA denial through the Cecchi order’s own citation; the count of three is National Mortgage News’s and is attributed as such.
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- Creator
- Andrew Martinez, National Mortgage News
- Published
- 2026
- Accessed
- 2026-08-12
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