For cases possible to be reached a mediation agreement but the parties failed to reach a new time-limit, the mediation time-limit may be rationally prolonged after the approval of the court President.

The company responded by halting sales of seized homes in the 23 states where court approval is required to foreclose while it gets to the bottom of its "robo-signing" problem.

Some Texan Republicans are already musing about bypassing the Department of Justice, and obtaining the necessary approval of their electoral maps from a federal court instead.