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Johnson’s case asks whether Congress intended to foreclose district court review of constitutional challenges to veterans’ benefits laws.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

Not only does it create a lien against your home, but your relative could potentially foreclose on the property.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

Friday's decision "is solely to foreclose the death penalty as an available punishment to be considered by the jury," Judge Margaret Garnett wrote in her opinion.

From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026

The Debt Recovery Act of 1732, we are told, formalized the “ability of creditors to foreclose on American land”; without it, lending on land would have been almost impossible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

“Certain items supposedly from the estate of President and Mrs. Abraham Lincoln have surfaced in a house the bank is forced to foreclose on. Do you grasp what this could mean, Mrs. Dowdel?”

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

If the U.S. legally forecloses this question while other nations leave it open, we risk being strategically blindsided.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025

"There is an adequate state ground for the prosecution and that forecloses Supreme Court jurisdiction on that issue," Peck said.

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2024

Tyndall’s death forecloses a criminal trial set for next year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2023

“This Court’s longstanding precedent forecloses applicants’ attempt to have the courts look behind the request’s stated legislative purpose to the subjective motives of individual legislators,” she wrote.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2022

“The bank forecloses on people’s farms and throws them off their land, and they don’t even appreciate it.”

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

So you’ve got regulation and legislation basically foreclosed by Supreme Court decisions, and that leaves litigation.

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026

A lender foreclosed on her San Francisco apartment in 2007, and two years later she filed for bankruptcy, according to property records and court filings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Colony Ridge foreclosed on the property three years later, even though Acevedo said she was making payments.

From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2026

Virginia does not have a “right of redemption,” so homeowners are generally not permitted to repurchase the foreclosed property.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 7, 2026

But the Website I’d found had been very specific about there being this huge parcel of oft- foreclosed land that no one had ever managed to develop.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

With a $127,000 federal tax lien on his New Orleans-area home in 2007 and a bank foreclosing on a second home in Florida, Alvendia joined Star Academy as a national salesman.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

By foreclosing rescission and large damages, the high court substantially narrowed the foundation for any significant plaintiffs’ fee award in future cases, lowering litigation risk at the margins.

From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 2026

That approach could produce a formally narrow decision that nevertheless risks foreclosing meaningful relief for transgender individuals whose discrimination claims would otherwise warrant serious judicial consideration.

From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2026

“You’ve exploited it, you’ve benefited from these resources and now you are basically foreclosing the opportunity for others to go and exploit,” he said, referring to wealthier countries.

From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2023

He had asserted that, owing to the habit of foreclosing small mortgages, "any one with a hundred guldens could gobble up a peasant a year."

From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by James Harvey Robinson