Tag Archives: District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Having read a fair number of rulings from across the country, it’s exciting to me when I read one where the judge lets his or her personality or true feelings for a situation come through instead of just writing something straightforward (re: boring). This is one of those rulings. A …

A District Court judge in Pennsylvania has granted a defendant’s motion for judgment on the pleadings, agreeing with the defendant that the plaintiff’s complaint is time-barred under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act’s one-year statute of limitations. A copy of the ruling in the case of Woods v. CACH can …

A debt that is sold to a third party can be confusing for a consumer, but confusion is not grounds for standing to sue under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and bad lawyer jokes aside, using legal terms does not constitute the use of obscene or profane language, a …

In a case that was defended by Rick Perr at Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck, a District Court judge in Pennsylvania has granted a judgment on the pleadings for a defendant that was accused of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act when it garnished a joint bank account despite allegedly …

A District Court judge in Pennsylvania has lowered the fee award in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case, almost ending up exactly in the middle between the amount sought by the plaintiff and the amount suggested by the defendant. A copy of the ruling in the case of Bush …

A District Court judge in Pennsylvania has granted summary judgment in favor of a defendant that was sued for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act a second time, after the plaintiff filed a motion for reconsideration, ruling that a collection letter sent to the plaintiff was not false, deceptive, …

In what feels like a “three people who have never been in my kitchen” claim, a District Court judge in Pennsylvania has granted a motion to dismiss filed by two debt collection companies that were sued for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Fair Credit Reporting …

A District Court judge in Pennsylvania has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment after it was sued for violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act and the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by allegedly reporting inaccurate information to the credit reporting agencies and allegedly failing to produce the requested information …

There are cases where a judge looks at the claims and determines that the plaintiff did not suffer any actual injury and therefore does not have standing to sue. And then there are lawsuits where the plaintiff doesn’t allege to have suffered an injury of any kind, which makes the …

Winning a collection lawsuit because the judge ruled there was not a sufficient chain of custody to prove the account was transferred by the original creditor to the entity purchasing the account is not enough evidence that a juror could use to conclude a false statement was made, ruled a …