On August 19, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission and the New York Attorney General filed a summary judgment motion against Buffalo, New York area debt collectors who allegedly harassed and threatened consumers into paying millions on debts allegedly owed by the consumers.
The FTC and New York State Attorney General filed a joint Complaint in
Troutman Sanders LLP announced today that Cindy Hanson has joined the firm’s Financial Services Litigation practice as a partner in Atlanta. Prior to joining Troutman Sanders, Cindy was a partner at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP.
Cindy focuses on class action defense and has handled hundreds of matters under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).
On August 5, the New York Attorney General announced a settlement with Provision Supply, LLC, d/b/a EZcontactsUSA.com over a data breach resulting in the potential exposure of over 25,000 credit card numbers and other cardholder data. Provision Supply, the operator of EZContactsUSA.com, a Brooklyn-based e-tailer that sells contact lenses and eyewear, agreed to pay $100,000
On July 14, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it had entered into a final consent order with Ohio auto dealers Progressive Chevrolet Company and Progressive Motors Inc. (collectively, the “Progressive Dealers”), which the FTC had “charged with deceiving consumers by using advertising that touted low monthly car lease payments and down payments but failed
On July 13, the FTC filed a proposed settlement agreement in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida between a group of lead generators and the FTC and the Office of the Florida Attorney General. The named lead generators included PC Cleaner, Inc.; Netcom3 Global, Inc.; Netcom 3, Inc.,
On June 6, the Attorney General for the State of North Carolina executed a settlement agreement with a payday lender, Future Income Payments, LLC, arising out of the payday lender’s alleged violation of that state’s usury laws. The settlement agreement requires the lender to pay North Carolina $50,000 in attorneys’ and investigation fees, plus a
On June 24, 2016, Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge announced a settlement agreement with payday lender, Western Sky Financial LLC, and loan servicer, CashCall Inc., to resolve allegations that the companies conspired to offer illegal online loans to Arkansas consumers while claiming to be shielded by tribal sovereign immunity.
According to the Arkansas Attorney General,
On May 19, 2016, the Vermont Attorney General announced that it had executed an Assurance of Discontinuance with a payment processor arising out of the Attorney General’s allegation that the payment processor violated a Vermont state statute prohibiting unfair and deceptive practices when the processor processed payments for dozens of payday lenders who did not
On June 9, Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson filed a lawsuit against Your Magazine Service, Inc., a Minnesota corporation, and the corporation’s owner, Wayne R. Dahl, Jr., alleging that the company used deceptive sales tactics to sign up customers for magazine subscriptions.
According to the suit, the company would call individuals who had purchased
On May 20, PayPal entered into an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance (AVC) with the Texas Attorney General over allegations that it failed to clearly explain how the personal information belonging to users of its Venmo mobile payment application would be used and with whom it would be shared.
The AVC stems from Texas Attorney General