Tag Archives: Standing

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, while denying the motion for attorney fees and costs, after the plaintiff received two collection emails from the defendant in which the name of the original …

In a case that is being defended by David Schultz and the team at Hinshaw Culbertson, a District Court judge in Illinois has granted a plaintiff’s motion to remand a Hunstein class action lawsuit back to state court, disagreeing with the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals’s ruling in the case …

Courts within the Seventh Circuit continue to attack the issue of standing in Fair Debt Collection Practices Act cases, this time dismissing a case because a plaintiff was confused about the amount that was owed after receiving a collection letter, because the plaintiff never made any attempt to pay the …

A District Court judge in Wisconsin has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case on the grounds that the plaintiff lacked standing to file his lawsuit, but even if he had standing the defendant still would have had its motion granted because …

A District Court judge in Arkansas has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss for lack of standing and failure to state a claim in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case even though it failed to send a timely validation notice, ruling that am underlying collection lawsuit provided the plaintiff …

A District Court judge in Illinois has dismissed one of the two counts in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act class action against a debt buyer and collection agency, ruling that the plaintiff did not have standing to sue by claiming that the addition a phrase to the outside of …

A District Court judge in Indiana has dismissed a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction, ruling the plaintiff lacked standing on any of the claims he made because he did not allege sufficient concrete injuries to move forward with his lawsuit. A copy of the …

A District Court judge in Illinois has denied a plaintiff’s request to move a Hunstein case back to state court, ruling that the Eleventh Circuit’s decision in the case lays the groundwork for the kind of concrete injury that is needed to be suffered in order for the case to …

A District Court judge in Illinois has used a recent series of rulings from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals on standing to sue under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to grant a defendant’s motion for summary judgment, after the judge had already certified a class in the case, …

Continuing its year-long attack on standing to file Fair Debt Collection Practices Act lawsuits, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday reversed a lower court’s ruling and ordered it to dismiss a case where the defendant did not send a written notice within five days of the initial contact and …