Tag Archives: Class-Action

A District Court judge in Connecticut has approved a settlement in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act class-action lawsuit after the defendant was accused of sending collection letters that improperly assessed post-judgment interest. The defendant has agreed to pay $10,000 to the members of the class, $3,000 to the named …

Well that didn’t take long. Less than a day after the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued its ruling in Hunstein v. Preferred Collection and Management Services, a class-action lawsuit has been filed in New York federal court accusing a debt collector of violating Section 1692c(b) and 1692f of the …

A District Court judge in Pennsylvania has denied a defendant’s motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit claiming it allegedly violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by engaging in a “policy and practice of seeking a continuance in a state-court debt-collection action by falsely representing, on the day of the …

A group of 33 state attorneys general are attempting to intervene and stop a settlement in a class-action Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case in which a mortgage servicer was accused of charging processing fees when taking payments over the phone or via its website. A copy of the brief …

A District Court judge in Illinois has denied a defendant’s motion to compel arbitration in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act class action because it did not prove that the plaintiff actually agreed to the terms and conditions when he signed up for a cell phone contract. A copy of …

A District Court judge in New Jersey has partially granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act class-action case, while allowing claims that a collection letter violated the statute to continue because the letter was addressed to the estate of a deceased individual instead of to …

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A collection law firm in New Jersey is facing a pair of class-action lawsuits that have been filed against it in Pennsylvania, accusing the firm of not sending mandatory notices required by law when suing individuals and for enrolling individuals in automatic payment plans without first obtaining their consent. A …

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A District Court judge in Illinois has granted a plaintiff’s motion for class certification as well as a motion for summary judgment in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case that hinged on the defendant’s inclusion of an internal notation when it identified the creditor to whom the debt was …