The United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama recently granted final approval of a class action settlement against Boyd Biloxi LLC, alleging that Biloxi sent telemarketing messages that violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
The class action Complaint was originally filed on July 16, 2014. The named plaintiff alleged that Biloxi
The Federal Trade Commission has begun mailing checks totaling over $830,000 to almost 3,500 consumers who fell victim to a telemarketing debt collection scheme targeting Spanish-speaking consumers for payment of bogus debts. Centro Natural Corp, Sumore LLC, and several individuals operated a telemarketing debt collection scam that used international callers who claimed to be government
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The Ninth Circuit recently broke from other circuit courts across the country and held that a trustee to a security agreement is not a debt collector pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. The case is Vien-Phuong Thi Ho v. Recontrust Co., N.A., No. 10-56884, 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 18836 (9th Cir. Oct. 19,
On November 10, the Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint in the Northern District of Georgia against NetSpend Corporation, alleging that the company repeatedly deceived consumers about their ability to access funds deposited on the company’s debit cards.
NetSpend markets, sells, and services prepaid debit cards, including general purpose reloadable cards. According
On November 9, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted final approval of a $49.9 million Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action settlement against US Coachways, Inc.
The original Complaint was filed against US Coachways on July 29, 2014, alleging that the motor coach leasing company sent out thousands of
A class of consumers in multidistrict litigation (MDL) recently filed their Motion for Final Approval of a Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action settlement against a debt collection company, Convergent Outsourcing Inc. (“Convergent”).
Between October 2012 and June 2013, the named plaintiffs initiated separate putative class actions throughout the country alleging that Convergent violated the
On November 7, the United States District Court for the Southern District of California granted final approval of the class settlement in Stemple v. QC Holdings, Inc., No. 3:12-cv-01997 (S.D. Cal.). The plaintiff in the case alleged that QC Holdings, a check-cashing and short-term loan company, negligently and willfully violated the Telephone Consumer
The CFPB has announced plans to produce a list of companies offering existing customers free access to their credit score. According to the CFPB, “educating and empowering consumers to take more control over their financial lives” constitutes a core part of the Bureau’s mission. Credit scores are vitally important to the Bureau in this regard
In likely the final chapter of a case covered previously by this blog, the New York Attorney General recently announced settlements with daily fantasy sport companies Draft Kings, Inc. and FanDuel, Inc. The companies will each pay $6 million in penalties and fees to the state of New York, in order to settle alleged false