Monthly Steel Challenge

As expected, Zillow has moved to dismiss Taylor v. Zillow, what we’ve been calling the Zillow RESPA lawsuit. The brief is methodical, well-organized, and effective in many places. But it also reveals, through what it emphasizes and what it glosses over, exactly where Zillow thinks it’s vulnerable. As I have said numerous times before, the job of a competent lawyer is to write a brief that makes you go, “I agree with you 100%!” The other lawyer will then file something that makes you go, “Clearly, you are right.” The court is likely to land somewhere between those two compelling extremes. So let’s take a look at what Zillow has argued, understanding that our/my view is likely to change completely once Hagens Berman files its response to the motion.