On June 3, 2016, Judge Sarah Netburn of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered BlackRock, an RMBS certificateholder that has sued the RMBS trustee, HSBC, to identify and serve document subpoenas on the former owners of BlackRock's RMBS certificates. BlackRock's lawsuit against HSBC (which we previously discussed here) asserts several causes of action arising out of HSBC's alleged failure to fulfill its contractual, statutory, and fiduciary obligations as Trustee. HSBC argued in its motion to compel production that the requested documents from the former owners are directly relevant to proving HSBC's affirmative defenses and showing that BlackRock lacks standing to assert the litigation rights of the prior certificateholders. The Court agreed, holding that BlackRock cannot assert the litigation rights of the prior certificateholders without assuming the corresponding discovery obligation. Order.
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