Tag Archives: District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

If I am reading this case right — and I will remind you that I am not a lawyer, I just play one on webinars — a District Court judge in Illinois — the home of no standing rulings — has determined a plaintiff has standing in a Fair Debt …

If you are furnishing information to credit reporting agencies — especially within the Seventh Circuit — you better make sure that you haven’t received any disputes in the day or two prior to submitting updates to the CRAs. A District Court judge in Illinois has denied a defendant’s motion for …

A District Court judge in Illinois has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case, ruling that a letter sent to the plaintiff in response to a dispute does not constitute a communication in connection with the collection of a debt. A copy …

A District Court judge in Illinois has granted a defendant’s motion for judgment on the pleadings after it was accused of violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act by not conducting a reasonable investigation after an account was disputed, ruling that the plaintiff lacked standing because he did not allege to …

A District Court judge in Illinois has granted a plaintiff’s motion to remand a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case back to state court, but in doing so made some comments that I found to at least make the ruling more enjoyable to read, if not also being possibly incredibly …

This is one of those “I’m not a lawyer, so I may be completely off-base, but if I’m not, then this might be a ruling worth paying attention to” type of cases, so please bear that in mind if you have chosen to continue reading and did not close this …

A District Court judge in Illinois has granted motions in two separate Fair Debt Collection Practices Act class-action lawsuits to remand the cases back to state court, ruling the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue in federal court. Copies of the rulings in Navarroli v. Medicredit and Maldonado v. Credit Control …

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A District Court judge in Illinois has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss, albeit giving the plaintiff an opportunity to amend her complaint, in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case because she lacked standing to sue, ruling that the behavior of the defendant’s representatives alleged in the complaint did …

While there may be people in the industry celebrating that the Hunstein case was dismissed by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday, a pair of recently issued rulings from the Northern District of Illinois illustrate that the fight over the use of letter vendors to print and mail collection …