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Nature of Suit Code: 220
Nature of Suit: Foreclosure
Cause of Action: 28:1331(a) Fed. Question: Real Property

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

Coretta Cantley, 

Plaintiff, 

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BAC Home Loans Servicing LP;

MERSCORP Inc.; Mortgage Electronic

Registration Systems Inc.; ReconTrust

Company NA, 

Defendants. 

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CV 11-00669-PHX-FJM

ORDER

The court has before it defendants' motion to expunge the lis pendens (doc. 25).

Plaintiff did not respond, and the time for responding has expired.

Plaintiff filed this action alleging violations of several federal laws, including the Fair

Debt Collection Practices Act and the Truth in Lending Act. On April 6, 2011, plaintiff filed

a Notice of Lis Pendens for her property in Tolleson, Arizona with this court (doc. 2), which

was recorded with the Maricopa County Recorder. Plaintiff filed a motion to voluntarily

dismiss her case in August 2011 (doc. 23). We dismissed the action in its entirety a few days

later, noting that plaintiff may dismiss her action without a court order pursuant to Rule

41(a)(1)(A), Fed. R. Civ. P. (doc. 24). Defendants now seek an order expunging the lis

pendens, noting that plaintiff has not provided a release of the lis pendens pursuant to A.R.S.

§ 12-1191(C).

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Arizona law requires a plaintiff to issue a release of the notice of lis pendens to the

defendant within thirty days after an action is dismissed for lack of prosecution. Id.

Defendants state that plaintiff has not granted the required release, and more than four

months have elapsed since plaintiff voluntarily dismissed this action. We agree that at this

point expungement of the lis pendens is appropriate. Alternatively, because plaintiff failed

to respond to the motion, we may construe the lack of a response as a concession and grant

the motion summarily. See LRCiv 7.2(i) ("if the unrepresented party. . . does not serve and

file the required answering memoranda. . . such non-compliance may be deemed a consent

to the denial or granting of the motion and the Court may dispose of the motion summarily").

IT IS ORDERED GRANTING defendants' motion to expunge the lis pendens (doc.

25). IT IS ORDERED that the lis pendens pertaining to real property located in Maricopa

County at 9371 W. Williams Street in Tolleson, Arizona and recorded at docket

20110295183 is EXPUNGED.

DATED this 17th day of January, 2012.

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