Tag Archives: District Court for the Western District of North Carolina

A District Court judge in North Carolina has denied a plaintiff’s motion to remand a Fair Credit Reporting Act case back to state court where it was originally filed, ruling that accessing the plaintiff’s credit report without a permissible purpose to do so constitutes a concrete injury and gives the …

A District Court judge in North Carolina has granted a defendant’s motion for relief from judgment on the grounds that a default judgment obtained by the plaintiff in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case is void due to lack of service of process. A copy of the ruling in …

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In a ruling that is emblematic of what is happening in Hunstein cases across the country, a District Court judge in North Carolina has used the Eleventh Circuit’s en banc ruling to determine that a plaintiff does not have standing to sue in federal court and remanded the case back …

A District Court judge in North Carolina has granted a defendant’s motion for judgment on the pleadings in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case, ruling that the plaintiff’s expectation for what he should have received when he disputed the debt was well beyond what the defendant had to provide …

A District Court judge in North Carolina has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss after it was accused of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by leaving a voicemail message on an individual’s cell phone that was overheard by the plaintiff’s sister, ruling that cell phone voicemails are intended …

A District Court judge in North Carolina has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act case after it was sued for allegedly placing “several” hundred calls to the plaintiff’s cell phone in an effort to attempt to collect a debt, ruling that the technology …