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Read More »In Loja v. Main Street Acquisition Corp., 906 F.3d 680 (7th Cir. Oct. 18, 2018), someone took out a credit card in the plaintiffs name and did not pay it. A debt collector sought to collect the debt from the plaintiff leading the plaintiff to file suit under the FDCPA.…
Read More »The debtor in Kitchner v. Fiergola, et al., No. 18 CV 133 (E.D. Wis. Sept. 18, 2018) brought suit under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) and Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”) against several attorneys for disclosing her credit score and history in a complaint they filed in a…
Read More »The debotr in Vogel v. McCarthy, Burgess, & Wolff, Inc., No. 17 C 6681 (N.D. Ill. Aug. 6, 2018) sued the debt collector for violating the FDCPA by failing to itemize the elements of her total debt in a collection letter. The court ruled that an unsophisticated consumer could be…
Read More »In Jones v. Lanier Fed. Credit Union, No. 2:17-CV-00282-RWS (N.D. Ga. Sept. 26, 2018) and Jones v. Piedmont Plus Fed. Credit Union, No. 1:17-CV-5214-RWS (N.D. Ga. Sept. 26, 2018) a Georgia District Court allowed claims brought by a legally blind plaintiff to proceed against credit unions because their websites denied…
Read More »In Wheeler Fin., Inc. v. Law Bulletin Publishing Co., 2018 IL App (1st) 171495 (Sep. 14, 2018) a tax purchaser sued the publisher of its tax deed notices for an error in the notice which resulted in the tax buyer losing its tax deed proceeding. The tax buyer alleged that…
Read More »The Seventh Circuit in Holcomb v. Freedman Anselmo Lindberg, LLC, 900 F.3d 990 (7th Cir. Aug. 21 2018) reversed a district court judgment against a debt collector alleged to have violated the FDCPA rule against sending notices to a debtor it knows is represented by counsel. The Court held that…
Read More »The Ninth Circuit in Tourgeman v. Nelson & Kennard, 900 F.3d 1105 (9th Cir. Aug. 20 2018) held that it is the plaintiff’s burden to prove defendant’s net worth in an FDCPA class action. Because the plaintiff lacked evidence of the defendant’s net worth the appellate court affirmed the dismissal…
Read More »In Edward F. Paliatka v. Bush, et al., 2018 IL App (1st) 172435 (July 18, 2018) the Illinois Appellate Court affirmed the trial court’s order dismissing the mortgagee’s action to foreclose an equitable mortgage. The court held that an equitable mortgage does not exist without there being a written instrument.…
Read More »In Schlaf v. Safeguard Prop., LLC, No. 17-2811 (7th Cir. Aug. 10, 2018) the Seventh Circuit held that the company contracted by the mortgage servicer to perform occupancy inspections of mortgaged property was not a debt collector and the door hanger it left at the property was not an attempt…
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