On October 12, a Pennsylvania federal court granted final approval of a $5.2 million Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action against Power Home Remodeling Group LLC.
Power Home is a home remodeling company that, according to the class action complaint, uses aggressive telemarketing and door-to-door solicitations to recruit new customers. Plaintiff alleged that Power Home
In Igor Vayngurt v. Southwest Credit Systems, L.P., the Eastern District of New York ruled that a debt collector did not violate the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by attempting to obtain payment of a collection fee at the same time as the principal balance of the debt and requesting prompt contact in the
Until October 10, none of the constitutional or scope of enforcement authority challenges to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (“CFPB” or Bureau”) power have been successful. That changed on October 11 when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia held the Director of the Bureau has too much unilateral, unchecked power and
The nation’s largest credit union, Navy Federal Credit Union, has been ordered to pay $28.5 million for alleged violations of the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010.
Navy Federal Credit Union limits its membership to military personnel and their immediate family members. According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, during January 2013 and July 2015,
On October 11, 2016, the United States Supreme Court granted the petition for certiorari of Midland Funding, LLC v. Johnson, an appeal from the Eleventh Circuit bringing to a head two issues that has been boiling for several years: (i) whether the filing of an accurate proof of claim for an unextinguished time-barred debt
On October 11, 2016, the District Court for the Northern District of California granted summary judgment to Safeway, Inc. in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) putative class action arising from the receipt of prerecorded telephone messages promoting Safeway’s flu shots.
Plaintiff first received a seasonal flu shot from Safeway in 2014. In connection with
In Practice Management Support Services v. Cirque Du Soleil, Inc., the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois denied the defendants’ motion for summary judgment that followed a Rule 67 motion to deposit $15,000 to moot the plaintiff’s claim for relief under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. The plaintiff seeks, on
Lyft Inc. avoided a putative background screening class action over alleged privacy violations on Spokeo grounds last week.
In the putative class action, the plaintiff driver alleged that Lyft failed to comply with the Fair Credit Reporting Act when it included “extraneous information” in its FCRA disclosure. In addition, the plaintiff claimed that Lyft failed
On September 29, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois preliminarily approved a $76 million Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action against several cruise marketing companies in Birchmeier v. Caribbean Cruise Line, Inc.
According to the class action complaint that was filed more than four years ago, a telemarketing company, ESG
In Marquez v. Weinstein, Pinson & Riley, P.S., et al., the plaintiffs brought a class action against the defendants for alleged violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act arising out of the defendants’ attempt to collect on student loan debts allegedly owed by the plaintiffs. Specifically, the defendant law firm, Weinstein, Pinson &