In this episode of Decision Dive, Balch’s Jason Tompkins, Chair of Balch & Bingham’s Issues & Appeals Practice, is joined by Robert Baxley, attorney in the firm’s Litigation Practice, to explore the Eleventh Circuit’s new...more
The Eleventh Circuit recently considered a negligence claim brought by the FDIC against directors of a Georgia community bank. Before the 2008 financial crisis, Buckhead Community Bank undertook a growth strategy to expand...more
And now for something completely different: Lemke v. Escallate, LLC, No. 17-cv-5234 (N.D. Ill. Mar. 19, 2019). Although some case law out of Illinois may make one question whether to collect debts there, this case...more
The plaintiff in Mollberg v. Advanced Call Center Technologies, Inc., No. 18-1210, 2019 WL 288128 (E.D.Wis. Jan. 22, 2019) received a letter from Advanced Call Center Technologies (which I’ll refer to as ACCT) that attempted...more
The least sophisticated consumer doesn’t need everything spelled out for him. Or at least that’s what the Eleventh Circuit held recently in Conde v. Webcollex, LLC, No. 18-12551 — another case where a court finds that...more