Tag Archives: Class Certification

A District Court judge in New Jersey has certified a class action Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case against a defendant accused of violating the statute because of a discrepancy in the amount of time it waited before reporting debts to credit reporting agencies and the amount of time it …

A District Court judge in Mississippi has certified a class action in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case in which the plaintiff has already obtained a default judgment against the defendant, after the defendant allegedly sent letters to the plaintiff that did not have the proper disclosures on them. …

A Bankruptcy Court judge in New York has certified a class of nearly 300,000 consumers for whom a furnisher failed to update their credit reports to discharged via bankruptcy from charged off while also sanctioning the furnisher for “repeated, lengthy, and willful discovery failures” including the submission of false affidavits …

A District Court judge in Pennsylvania has certified a class action in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act lawsuit that accused a defendant of violating the statute by mentioning in a letter that a judgment may be awarded before the expiration of a settlement offer that was being made, even …

A District Court judge in Pennsylvania has certified a class in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case over a 1692e claim that the manner in which a series of debts were itemized in a collection letter was misleading, disagreeing with the defendant that there is no evidence that other …

A District Court judge in California has certified a class in a case accusing a company that performs billing and collection services for a car rental company of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by sending letters from the billing arm of the company without the mini-Miranda notice. A …