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On November 21, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted preliminary approval of a proposed $600,000 settlement of a class action lawsuit filed by a consumer against M3 Financial Services, Inc., an Illinois-based health care debt collector. The lawsuit, styled Elaine Mason et al. v. M3 Financial Services Inc.,…

The Third Circuit recently clarified in important ways its ascertainability standard for class actions under Rule 23 in a case that arose from the efforts of an auto finance company to generate business by marketing efforts directed at automobile dealers.  The decision reflects two key findings:  (1) that defendants who argue a class is not…

A federal district court in Connecticut recently ruled that a debt collector’s 29 telephone calls to a debtor’s home telephone over a period of 24 days was sufficient to establish a claim under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. In denying in part the defendant debt collector’s motion for judgment on the pleadings, Judge Jeffrey…

A Texas-based payment processor agreed on November 1 to pay $9 million to settle a putative class action brought under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.  According to the plaintiffs, Pivotal Payments, Inc. failed to ensure that a third party it hired to make…

The November 3 decision in Alpha Tech Pet, Inc. v. Lagasse, LLC, et al. highlights that one of the key individualized issues present in many TCPA class actions – whether consumers provided their consent to be called, texted, or, as in this case, sent faxes – can defeat class claims.

In its complaint, Alpha…

In the past several years, Dish Network, LLC has found itself a target of several class actions for violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.   Earlier this year, a jury found Dish Network liable for TCPA violations arising from telemarketing calls.  The North Carolina District Court trebled the jury verdict, resulting in a $61 million…

According to a litigation statistics report issued by WebRecon LLC, consumer lawsuits alleging violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act increased by nearly 60% in September from the prior month.  That increase “keeps it in line with the aggressive growth in recent years.”

FCRA filings increased 58.4% from 351 in August to 556 in September…

Recent attempts by The Häagen-Dazs Shoppe Company, Inc., Nestlé Dreyer’s Ice Cream Company, and Nestlé USA, Inc. to have a Telephone Consumer Protection Act putative class action dismissed proved unsuccessful after the United States District Court for the Northern District of California found that the “thank you” text messages at issue could arguably constitute telemarketing.…

On August 23, a federal judge in Illinois ruled that a consumer who had multiple accounts with different creditors assigned to the same collection agency did not effectively revoke consent for all accounts merely by revoking consent for one.  Specifically, the Court said that when a consumer told a collection agency to stop calling him…

In re Monitronics International, Inc., pending in the Northern District of West Virginia, is a consolidated class action lawsuit brought under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.  After years of contentious litigation, this past week the Court preliminarily approved a class action settlement of $28 million.  This significant settlement serves as another example of the high…