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On August 27, an Illinois appellate court affirmed a trial court’s denial of a motion to compel arbitration in an FDCPA class action. The case involved a 2022 collection email about a charged-off account originally opened...more
Court Finds Mass Arbitration Bellwether and Delegation Provisions Unconscionable - The district court for the Northern District of California recently denied a defendant’s motion to compel arbitration and, in so ruling,...more
Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit vacated District Court orders compelling arbitration of an FDCPA class action on the basis that the plaintiff’s allegations of harm were insufficient to establish...more
GC Services Limited Partnership (“GC Services”), a debt collector hired by a bank to collect an allegedly unpaid balance on a credit card, advised plaintiff Francina Smith (“Smith”) that it would commence a collection...more
Last week, in Fuller v. Frontline Asset Strategies, Inc., the Northern District of Illinois compelled arbitration of Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) claims against LVNV Funding, LLC (LVNV), Resurgent Capital...more