Class action Lawyer
Practice Areas: Class Action, Debt Collection, Consumer Protection
OUTCOME: Affirmed judgment dismissing claims against our client.
Personal injury attorney, who signed acknowledgment of client’s agreement with a "litigation funding" company, had collateral estoppel defense against company when, in a prior lawsuit in a different co ... urt, the agreement was held to be unenforceable in violation of usury and champerty.
OUTCOME: The Court of Appeals reversed holding that the limitations period is not tolled.
Suit alleging a debt buyer sued New Jersey consumers on debts which were barred by the Delaware three-year statute of limitations because the credit card account agreement required application of Delaw ... are law. The District Court dismissed the case because it concluded the three-year period was tolled by a Delaware statute which tolls the running of the limitations period when a defendant is outside Delaware and cannot be served with process. We appealed.
OUTCOME: Court of Appeals adopted rule making collector's failure to disclose accruing interest a violation of the FDCPA.
Suit for violation of Fair Debt Collection Practices Act when debt collector's letter stated amount of debt but did not disclose that debt was increasing due to accruing interest.
OUTCOME: Judgment finding that the law firm violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
Claim against NJ's largest debt collection law firm for robo-signing collection complaints.
OUTCOME: Reversed dismissal of our clients' claims.
Reversed dismissal of FDCPA violation for failure to use collector’s true name in voicemail messages left to collect a debt.
OUTCOME: Reversed dismissal of our client's claims.
The use of previously-approved safe harbor language in collection letter did not protect collector when that language was not accurate with respect to the facts.
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