Tag Archives: District Court for the District of New Jersey

Synonyms and semantics can be deadly when in the hands of a federal judge. A defendant is learning that lesson the hard way after a District Court judge in New Jersey denied a defendant’s motion to compel arbitration in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case, ruling that the words …

A District Court judge in New Jersey has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss on all counts but one in a class-action Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case, ruling that the allegations that the amount of a debt was mis-stated in a letter can not be ruled on at this …

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Similarly, if a statement in a collection letter allegedly violates the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, but the recipient of the letter testifies that she doesn’t recall ever seeing it, does …

You’ve all seen those videos where a driver suddenly realizes he or she missed their turn and tries to immediately double back, only to end up getting into an accident? In a case defended by Mitch Williamson at Barron & Newburger, a District Court judge in New Jersey has granted …

A class-action lawsuit has been filed in New Jersey by a plaintiff who claims that a debt buyer allegedly violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act because it did not have the proper license to authorize a collection law firm to try and collect on a judgment in that state …

A District Court judge in New Jersey has denied a plaintiff’s motion to certify a class in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act lawsuit, ruling that the different letter templates used by the defendant and the different language included in those templates requires individualized inquiries into whether the letters received …

In what is reported to becoming an increasingly common development in Fair Debt Collection Practices Act cases across the country, a District Court judge in New Jersey has temporarily terminated a motion to certify a class action and issued an order to both the plaintiff and defendant in the case …

Even though he had been told otherwise, writing a note in the memo line of a check that a debt was being paid in exchange for deletion of a tradeline does not work, according to a District Court judge in New Jersey who granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment …

A District Court judge in New Jersey has cited the principal of a debt collection company for contempt of court for failing to respond to a proposed class action lawsuit and pay a default judgment of $7,671.50 after the company was sued for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices …

A District Court judge in New Jersey has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss on two claims that it violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, but denied the motion related to the other claims, while also sharing his displeasure at how collectors have induced “endless litigation” because of how …