Tag Archives: Standing

A District Court judge in Florida went to great lengths to spell out exactly why a plaintiff lacked standing to sue in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case in which she alleged a collection law firm did not engage in meaningful attorney involvement before sending a validation notice on …

A District Court judge has ruled that a plaintiff does not have standing to sue a collector that sent two collection letters seeking to collect on a debt that had been discharged in bankruptcy in which the letters indicated that the collector would update “credit data it may have” already …

The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit is back with another ruling on standing to sue in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act lawsuit, remanding a case back to the District Court for it to be dismissed after a debt collector was sued for sending a letter to an …

This is one of those “I’m not an attorney, but it seems like an interesting case because I think it speaks to something that a panelist said on one of my webinars would start happening” cases. A District Court judge in Wisconsin has granted a plaintiff’s motion to remand a …

A credit reporting agency has filed its brief with the Supreme Court as it seeks to have a class of plaintiffs decertified in a Fair Credit Reporting Act case that will answer the question of whether every member of a class must have Article III standing in order to recover …

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, …

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals continued its assault on standing in Fair Debt Collection Practices Act cases yesterday, affirming a District Court ruling that a plaintiff lacked standing to sue a debt collector because she did not try to show an intent to dispute a debt while suing because …

A District Court judge in Wisconsin has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act class-action case, determining that the plaintiff lacked standing to sue because he took no action to clarify his confusion over whom he should pay after receiving a collection letter …

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I’m thrilled to announce that Bedard Law Group is the new sponsor for the Compliance Digest. Bedard Law Group, P.C. – Compliance Support – Defense Litigation – Nationwide Complaint Management – Turnkey Speech Analytics. And Our New BLG360 Program – Your Low Monthly Retainer Compliance Solution. Visit www.bedardlawgroup.com, email John H. Bedard, Jr., or call (678) 253-1871. Every week, …