By Ross Todd | December 6, 2018
"I ignore these things as I think most people do," says Mike Arias, founding partner of Arias Sanguinetti Wang & Torrijos and new president of the largest state-level plaintiffs lawyer group in the country, of the report ranking CA the country's number one "Judicial Hellhole."
By Amanda Bronstad | December 6, 2018
Plaintiffs lawyers, however, consider the Cambridge Analytica scandal "the tip of the iceberg" in Facebook's "willful pursuit of generating revenue at the expense of its users.”
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By P.J. D'Annunzio | December 6, 2018
U.S. District Chief Judge Joy Flowers Conti of the Western District of Pennsylvania on Tuesday affirmed an arbitration award in favor of plaintiff Betty Frison and against Davison Design & Development.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By P.J. D'Annunzio | December 6, 2018
Though a 2016 Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling in two consolidated cases said debt collection lawyers can be sued for excessive fees in foreclosure actions, the state Superior Court has now held in one of those cases that the plaintiffs still do not have a cause of action because their mortgage was too large to qualify under the version of the Pennsylvania Loan Interest and Protection Law in effect at the time it was executed.
New Jersey Law Journal | Analysis
By Michael H. Reed | December 5, 2018
Does the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in 'Bristol Myers Squibb' apply to class actions?
By C. Ryan Barber | December 5, 2018
Seth Frotman, the CFPB's former student loan ombudsman, said the deposition would set a “bad precedent” that would deter people from taking government posts.
By Katheryn Tucker | December 5, 2018
Attorneys general from 41 states, including New Jersey, announced that they reached a settlement with debt buyer and collector Encore Capital Group Inc., and subsidiaries Midland Credit Management Inc. and Midland Funding.
By Michael Booth | December 4, 2018
A federal judge in New Jersey has certified a class of student loan borrowers in an action claiming a debt-collection letter contained false and misleading statements about possible late charges.
By Katheryn Tucker | December 4, 2018
Attorney General Chris Carr says the settlement requires Midland to completely eliminate or reduce the judgment balances of approximately 5,136 Georgia consumers for a value of $8.73 million.
By Jenna Greene | December 3, 2018
Either Whitaker didn't know what was going on, which makes him wildly careless to get involved in a business without checking out basics like whether it really had a factory in China or delivered the services it promised. Or else he was a party to scam.
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