Bevilacqua v. Rodriguez-- Mass. Buyers out of Foreclosure Get the [Mostly] Bad News

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court handed down its decision yesterday in the closely watched case Bevilacqua v. Rodriguez.  And while the decision contained a ray of hope for buyers of property at flawed Massachusetts foreclosure sales, the court affirmed a lower court decision that took away a property from a foreclosure sale buyer and gave it back to the former owner who had defaulted on his mortgage-- something that many experts thought the courts would never do.