In Ela v. Kathleen Destefano, the Eleventh Circuit recently commented on the remedies provision of the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act (“DPPA”), holding that the liquidated damages provision does not apply to individual violations of the statute in instances where multiple violations are alleged.
As background, plaintiff Theresa Ann Ela sued Kathleen Destefano, an Orange
On September 20, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Katz v. The Donna Karan Company, LLC, affirmed the lower court’s dismissal of a Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act putative class action for failure to establish a concrete injury sufficient to maintain Article III standing to bring suit.
As we previously reported,
On Thursday, October 5th, from 2-3 p.m. ET, Troutman Sanders attorneys John Lynch, Jon Hubbard and Mohsin Reza will present a webinar discussing trends in consumer mortgage litigation across the country and major decisions in individual and class actions involving ECOA, FHA, RESPA, TILA, FCRA, FDCPA, and state mortgage and consumer protection laws. The webinar
Join Troutman Sanders for a webinar on October 18, 2017 from 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. ET. During the webinar, the presenters will discuss the European Union’s upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and what it means for your company. The speakers will cover the basics of the GDPR and its impact on key departments and
In response to the nationwide opioid crisis, forty-one state attorneys general issued subpoenas to five opioid drug manufacturers and three drug distributors this week. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman made the first public announcement of the multistate investigation. The subpoena demands information and documentation from the manufacturers and distributors regarding prescription opioid drugs as
On Thursday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB” or “Bureau”) issued its first no-action letter to Upstart Network, Inc., an online lender. The no-action letter green-lights the lender’s use of alternative data in marketing and pricing decisions. In exchange, Upstart will report lending and compliance information to the CFPB.
California-based Upstart provides an
The Federal Trade Commission settled its first-ever action against individual social media influencers for failing to disclose connections to brands the influencers endorsed. The action – against Trevor Martin (also known as “TmarTn”), Thomas Cassell (also known as “Syndicate”), and CSGOLotto, Inc. – alleged that Martin and Cassell endorsed CSGOLotto on their social media pages
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently released its Summer 2017 Supervisory Highlights, which summarizes the agency’s supervisory activities during the first half of this year.
Looking to the numbers. From January through June, the CFPB’s nonpublic supervisory activities led to restitution payments that totaled approximately $14 million, and public enforcement actions that netted an
In January 2013, a teenager in Australia posted a photo online showing that his “footlong” Subway sandwich was in fact only 11 inches, setting off a viral storm of consumers discovering their “footlong” sandwiches were similarly not as large as advertised. That spawned a number of class action lawsuits in America accusing Subway’s franchisor, Doctor’s
Two recent decisions from the Southern District of New York and the District of New Jersey have expressly disagreed about a credit repair company’s dispute of a debt on behalf of a consumer in two Fair Debt Collection Practices Act cases.
In Taylor-Burns v. AR Resources, Inc., plaintiff Tonya Taylor-Burns alleged that the debt