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This is a July 2024 reply brief before the Ninth Circuit where a homeowner is appealing a federal district court decision concerning the homeowner’s legal claims against a home equity “investment” lender, and whether the transaction is a reverse mortgage loan under Washington law covered by statutes applicable to reverse mortgage loans. The brief focuses on the lender’s evasion of Washington law and the lender’s deceptive practices. The reply brief was submitted by Beth Terrell, Blythe Chandler, and Elizabeth Adams of the Seattle firm of Terrell Marshall Law Group PLLC and by Matthew Wessler and Thomas Scott-Railton of the Washington DC firm of Gupta Wessler LLP, and Joseph Moore and Umar Gebril of the Cascade, Washington law firm of Cascade Law PLLC.