Tag Archives: Northern District of Illinois

In one of the first cases to reference a series of rulings from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals on the issue of plaintiffs’ standing to sue, a District Court judge in Illinois has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case because the “stress, …

A District Court judge in Illinois has granted a plaintiff’s motion for class certification as well as a motion for summary judgment in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case that hinged on the defendant’s inclusion of an internal notation when it identified the creditor to whom the debt was …

A District Court judge in Illinois has denied a defendant’s motion to dismiss and its motion to decertify a class after it was sued for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act regarding a time-barred notice in a collection letter. A copy of the ruling in the case of …

A District Court judge in Illinois has denied a defendant’s motion to dismiss after it was sued for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act because it said it would not sue the plaintiff to collect a debt for which the statute of limitations had expired instead of saying …

A District Court judge in Illinois has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment after it was sued for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by continuing to contact a plaintiff after the plaintiff’s attorney had sent an online message to stop doing so, because the message was sent …

A District Court judge in Illinois has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment after it was sued for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by sending a second collection letter that allegedly overshadowed the validation notice during the 30-day window to dispute a debt. A copy of the …

A District Court judge in Illinois has denied a defendant’s motion to dismiss after it was sued for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act because it said it “will not” sue an individual for a time-barred debt instead of saying it “can not” do so. A copy of …