In Portalatin v. Blatt, Hasenmiller, Leibsker & Moore, LLC, No. 16-1578 (7th Cir. Aug. 13, 2018), an FDCPA action, the Seventh Circuit vacated a judgment based on a jury verdict of $200 in statutory damages and over $70,000 in fees and costs against a law firm. The Court held that…
Read More »The Third Circuit in Tepper v. Amos Financial LLC, No. 17-2851 (3d Cir. Aug. 7, 2018) has extended the reach of the FDCPA’s definition of debt collector to include entities whose principal business is to collect the defaulted debts they purchase. The debtors had a home equity line of credit…
Read More »In Sylva, LLC v. Baldwin Court Condominium Association, Inc., 2018 IL App (1st) 170520, a purchaser bought a condominium unit at a foreclosure sale. At the time of sale, the purchaser paid six months’ of the prior owner’s unpaid assessments to clear the title of the unpaid assessment lien. After…
Read More »Two pieces of legislation recent passed the both houses of the Illinois General Assembly that affect foreclosure and mortgage related litigation. Both are awaiting the signature of the governor. The first bill, SB2432, was clearly directed at redressing the consequences of the 2015 decision of Arch Bay Holdings, LLC-Series 2010B…
Read More »On May 24, 2018, the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (“Act”), S. 2155, which was passed by Congress on May 22, 2018, was signed into law. The Act represents the first major rewrite of the financial regulations legislated under the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection…
Read More »In Patterson v. Howe, Case No. 1:16-cv-03364, (S. D. Ind. Mar. 30, 2018) the district court for the Southern District of Indian found that a debt collector violated the FDCPA when it served the debtor with a “Requests to Admit”, along with the summons and the complaint, which basically asked…
Read More »The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, (“Act”) amended federal law to impose new requirements on professionals who assist with the preparation of bankruptcy petitions. The provision at issue in a recent decision from the Eleventh Circuit, Cadwell v. Kaufman, Englett & Lynd, PLLC, 886 F.3d 1153…
Read More »Addressed in U.S. Bank Nat’l Ass’n v. Randhurst Crossing LLC, 2018 IL App (1st) 170348 (Mar. 29, 2018) was whether a mortgagee holding an assignment of rents was entitled to collect rents before a receiver was appointed on the basis that a bankruptcy court had previously ordered that the rents…
Read More »The debtor in Delgado v. Client Servs., Inc., No. 17 C 4364 (N.D. Ill. Mar. 7, 2018) sued the debt collector under the FDCPA by sending a misleading letter regarding a dunning letter that reference the balance due at charge-off “2,619.26”, interest at “0.00”, other charges at “0”, payments made…
Read More »In Bassett v. ABM Parking Services, Inc., 883 F.3d 776 (Feb. 21, 2018), the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that a consumer who received a credit card receipt that improperly contained the full expiration date in violation the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) failed to…
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