A District Court judge in Kansas has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss a Hunstein case, ruling that the plaintiff lacked standing to sue because she did not suffer a concrete injury when the defendant used a third-party vendor to print and mail a collection letter. A copy of the …
Read More »Judge Dismisses Two Hunstein Cases for Lack of Standing
A District Court judge in New York has dismissed two cases — one of them a class action — that alleged the defendants violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by sending private information to a third-party vendor to print and mail collection letters that were received by the plaintiffs, …
Read More »Judge Grants MTD in FDCPA Case Alleging Hunstein Disclosure
A District Court judge in Kansas has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case, ruling that the plaintiff lacked standing to sue because she was confused about an alleged discrepancy in the balance of her debt after receiving several collection letters, but, perhaps more …
Read More »Judge Denies Plaintiff’s Motion to Remand Hunstein Case Back to State Court
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 …
Read More »WDTN Judge Uses TransUnion Ruling to Grant MTD in FDCPA Case Over Debt Amount
A District Court judge in Tennessee is the latest to use the Supreme Court’s ruling in TransUnion v. Ramirez as grounds to determine that a plaintiff lacked standing to sue a collector for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act because it indicated in a collection letter that additional …
Read More »Judge Orders Parties in FDCPA Class Action to Submit Briefs on Issue of Standing Following TransUnion Ruling
In what is reported to becoming an increasingly common development in Fair Debt Collection Practices Act cases across the country, a District Court judge in New Jersey has temporarily terminated a motion to certify a class action and issued an order to both the plaintiff and defendant in the case …
Read More »Industry Seizes Footnote in SCOTUS Ruling on Standing to Make Case for Rehearing in Hunstein Lawsuit
Both the defendant in the Hunstein v. Preferred Collection and Management Services case as well as ACA International jumped on the Supreme Court’s ruling in TransUnion v. Ramirez to add to their arguments why the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals should grant the petition for an en banc rehearing of …
Read More »Supreme Court Places Further Limits on Standing in FCRA Ruling
The Supreme Court today issued its ruling in TransUnion v. Ramirez, ruling that every member of a class must have Article III standing in order to be eligible to recover damages, dealing a blow to class-action plaintiffs across the country. This particular ruling is being seen as a reinforcement of …
Read More »Judge Denies Stay Request in FCRA Permissible Purpose Case
A District Court judge in Arizona has denied a motion to have a Fair Credit Reporting Act class-action case stayed against a law firm accused of accessing an individual’s credit report without a permissible purpose pending the outcome of a case before the Supreme Court. A copy of the ruling …
Read More »TransUnion Makes Case to Decertify Class in $40M FCRA Case
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 …
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