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Mr. Civil Procedure Man is gratified to have questions for this column that do not involve service of process in odd kinds of bankruptcy proceedings, though Mr. Procedure Man admits that most bankruptcy proceedings seem odd to him.

Question No. 1: My question has to do with the real party in interest requirement in Rule 17 (FRBP 7017).  Generally, the question is, how does that requirement apply to mortgage servicers?  But I’m curious about two different scenarios.

The first scenario is the common one.  The servicer collects payments on behalf of another party.  The servicer . . .

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