Marketing Services Agreements (MSA), Joint Ventures, Desk Rentals and whatever other form these relationships take, may seem counter to RESPA (Real EstateSettlementandProceduresAct), rules governing compensation for realestate referrals, but they are industry norms.
So the tech corp. crowd was hoping the Supreme Court would reverse the Ninth Circuit and rule that Denise Edwards could not in fact sue her bank for violating the RealEstateSettlementProceduresAct, since she suffered no harm.