Plaintiffs who allege they were denied employment on allegedly inaccurate and incomplete criminal histories supplied by defendant CoreLogic National Background Data LLC (NBD), which provides customers access to a database of criminal record information, can try their claim that defendant ...

Tagged with: Consumer Protection Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In plaintiff’s suit alleging defendant debt collection agency violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by sending her dunning letters in Spanish, which she could not read, an Alexandria U.S. District Court denies plaintiff’s motion for class certification. Discovery has ...

Tagged with: Consumer Protection Judge James C. Cacheris U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In plaintiffs’ proposed class action suit alleging defendant Corelogic National Background Data LLC’s use of criminal background checks violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act, defendant cannot strike as undisclosed expert witnesses two employees of McGladrey LLP who offer lay testimony ...

Tagged with: Consumer Protection Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A payday lender’s loan servicing agent cannot enforce an arbitration clause in this putative class action filed by a payday-loan borrower, and the 4th Circuit reverses the district court order compelling arbitration; the servicing agent seeks to deploy arbitration to ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Consumer Protection Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III

A Shenandoah County lawyer hopes to try the nation’s first Volkswagen “clean diesel” fraud case in Virginia this summer. If the case is tried, it will not be in a federal courthouse or a big-city circuit court. A small district ...

Tagged with: Consumer Protection Judge Michael Joseph Cassidy

A law firm that sent a collection letter to plaintiffs for alleged delinquent homeowner association assessments faces claims under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act that the firm falsely represented the amount and legal status of the debt, failed to ...

Tagged with: Consumer Protection Judge Gerald Bruce Lee U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In plaintiffs’ suit alleging violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Richmond U.S. District court grants in part plaintiffs’ motions to certify two classes. In September 2009, plaintiff obtained a job with Cableview Communications, which was purchased by defendant ...

Tagged with: Consumer Protection Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A borrower who alleges he refinanced his home based on a mortgage broker’s assertion that his home had doubled in value, and then lost his home when he could not manage the increased interest payments, cannot show substantive unconscionability under ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Consumer Protection Judge Pamela A. Harris

Steps taken by defendant finance company after it discovered it was charging a used car buyer 26.99 percent in interest, including its letter of notice to the buyer, satisfied requirements under a Maryland consumer protection statute, but the district court ...

Tagged with: Consumer Protection Judge Albert Diaz Virginia Court of Appeals

Consumers who allege defendants, including The Servicing Company LLC, have improperly obtained consumer reports of plaintiffs and then resold those reports to Internet payday lenders have stated claims under the Fair Credit Reporting Act against the company and its owner; ...

Tagged with: Consumer Protection Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District