From 'rocket docket' to rocket market

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 5:39 p.m. December 1, 2011
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The Fort Myers area was one of the hardest-hit in the nation for real estate and gave birth to the foreclosure “rocket docket,” the court machine established to quickly clear the massive backlog of foreclosure cases.

 

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