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(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)SALT LAKE CITY -- Bank of America has halted nearly 1,000 foreclosure sales in Utah because of a court-ordered preliminary injunction. The ruling came as the result of a lawsuit filed by a Utah woman.
According to the Deseret News, attorney John Christian Barlow filed a case in behalf of Peni Cox, who had stopped paying her mortgage in January 2009.
Barlow and Cox had foreclosure proceedings stopped just before the property was turned over to the Bank of America.
The lawsuit alleges the bank has no right to pursue foreclosures in Utah because they aren't registered with the Utah Division of Corporations and don't have face-to-face meeting space in Utah.
Bank of America officials say it is not required to register with state offices.
