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25-6272 James Taylor v. Freedom Mortgage Corporation, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-03 Pending IFP consumer-protection debt-collection fdcpa legal-standing nonjudicial-foreclosure statutory-interpretation I. Under 15 U.S.C. § 1692, is Freedom Mortgage Corporation a "Debt Collector" under the FDCPA's Primary Definition, when attempting to collect debt? …
25A587 Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Third Circuit 2025-11-18 Application certiorari consumer-protection extension pharmaceutical regulatory time-limit Whether the Supreme Court should grant a pharmaceutical company an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari in a case involving significant…
25-257 Wells Pharma of Houston, L.L.C. v. Zyla Life Sciences, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2025-09-04 Pending CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) consumer-protection drug-marketing fdca-preemption outsourcing-facilities premarket-approval state-law-claims Whether the FDCA preempts private state-law unfair competition and consumer protection claims premised on the marketing of compounded drugs without pr…
24-1230 Coinbase, Inc., et al. v. Darren Kramer, et al. California 2025-06-03 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived arbitration-agreement consumer-protection federal-arbitration-act preemption public-injunctive-relief state-law Whether, or to what extent, the FAA preempts a state-law rule allowing a plaintiff to evade arbitration by pleading a request for 'public injunctive r…
24-7067 Manuel Tijerino v. Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund Fifth Circuit 2025-04-23 Denied IFP consumer-protection due-process employer-misconduct equal-protection fmla-retaliation legal-presumption Did the lower courts err in misapplying the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) waiver of standards denying Petitioners FMLA, due to a concealed missrepre…
24A745 American Airlines Group Inc. v. United States, et al. First Circuit 2025-01-29 Presumed Complete airline-regulation consumer-protection federal-preemption interstate-commerce marketing-claims pricing-practices Whether federal preemption principles bar state-level consumer protection claims challenging airline pricing and marketing practices
24A728 Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., et al. v. Skot Heckman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-24 Presumed Complete antitrust class-action consumer-protection due-process settlement ticket-sales Whether a class action settlement involving Ticketmaster and Live Nation violated due process or consumer protection standards by allegedly failing to…
24A696 Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited, et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-15 Presumed Complete administrative-agency appropriations-clause consumer-protection dodd-frank funding-structure separation-of-powers Whether the Dodd-Frank Act's funding mechanism for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau violates the Appropriations Clause of the U.S. Constitutio…
24A671 Premier Nutrition Corporation, fka Joint Juice, Inc. v. Mary Beth Montera, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2025-01-10 Presumed Complete certification class-action consumer-protection federal-procedure judicial-federalism state-law Whether federal courts can apply state-law class action restrictions when a plaintiff files a putative class action in federal court under a state con…
24-6255 Taiming Zhang v. Apple, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-violations consumer-protection due-process product-liability racial-discrimination Whether Apple has committed systematic fraud, racial targeting, and constitutional violations through defective product design and judicial misconduct
24-5682 Lan Thi Tran Nguyen v. Kathryn Luebcke, et al. California 2024-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights consumer-protection discrimination judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation real-property Whether a pro se litigant's consumer protection rights were violated in a real property dispute involving alleged judicial misconduct and discriminati…
24-262 Stacy Makhnevich v. Gregory S. Bougopoulos, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-09 Dismissed consumer-protection debt-collection fdcpa-violation legal-standing misrepresentation unfair-practices Whether a debt collector's misrepresentations about an entity's legal standing to sue in state courts violates the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act …
24-254 Gordon Wood v. Winnebago Industries, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied Response Waived consumer-protection consumer-rights statutory-interpretation warranty-act warranty-obligations warranty-representative Whether a warrantor remains directly liable for warranty obligations when designating a representative under the Magnuson Moss Warranty Act
24A191 QYK Brands LLC, dba Glowyy v. Federal Trade Commission Ninth Circuit 2024-08-21 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-discretion chevron-deference consumer-protection due-process ftc-injunction Whether the Supreme Court should limit the Federal Trade Commission's authority to impose lifetime industry-wide injunctions based on a presumption of…
24A143 Stacy Makhnevich v. Novick Edelstein Pomerantz, P.C., et al. Second Circuit 2024-08-07 Presumed Complete consumer-protection debt-collection false-representation fdcpa materiality statute-of-limitations Whether the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) permits tolling of the statute of limitations when a debt collector files false or materially m…
23A1102 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. Charles Ramsey California 2024-06-11 Presumed Complete arbitration-agreement consumer-protection federal-arbitration-act mcgill-rule ninth-circuit public-injunctive-relief Whether California's McGill rule impermissibly disfavors arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act by rendering standard bilateral arbitration agr…
23A1081 Joshua A. Lapin v. EverQuote, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-06-04 Presumed Complete article-iii-standing concrete-harm consumer-protection digital-nomad federal-jurisdiction statutory-damages Whether an uninjured plaintiff who receives unsolicited communications lacks Article III standing to sue for statutory damages in federal court when n…
23A1030 Ralph L. Hayes v. Fay Servicing, LLC Fourth Circuit 2024-05-20 Presumed Complete administrative-delay cfpb-investigation consumer-protection due-process mortgage-loans writ-of-certiorari Whether the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's prolonged investigation of mortgage loan allegations constitutes an unreasonable delay that violate…
23-6928 Saria Walker v. Scientific Alloys Corp., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights consumer-protection dental-amalgam due-process environment government-liability health medical-safety mercury-toxicity product-safety Is there other safer alternatives now available other than dental amalgam?
23-800 Niki-Alexander Shetty, et al. v. Thomas Block, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied civil-procedure consumer-protection contract-law federal-courts rescission statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations statutory-construction tila-rescission truth-in-lending-act Can federal courts import state statutes of limitations to bar an action to enforce a timely TILA rescission when TILA itself has no such limitation p…
23-710 Brigitte Nelson v. Acre Mortgage & Financial Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure consumer-protection dodd-frank-act federal-regulation judicial-review mortgage-disclosure regulatory-compliance respa tila tila-respa Whether the Third Circuit's Judgment incorrectly affirmed the Jury Verdict and the District Court Judgment
23-637 Jingjing Zheng, et vir v. Shady Grove Fertility Maryland 2023-12-13 Denied civil-rights consumer-protection court-deception due-process fertility-fraud fertility-treatments intentional-misrepresentation maryland-law medical-fraud medical-malpractice pro-se-litigation standing Will granting this petition decrease a large amount of loss in IVF treatments in the United States each year to safeguard the significant interests of…
23-511 Terrence R. Bell v. Sun West Mortgage Company, Inc. Texas 2023-11-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation consumer-protection due-process equal-protection federal-trade-commission property-rights standing Whether the Fourteenth Court of Appeals erred in its interpretation and application of Amendment XIV, Section 1 of the United States Constitution
23-5963 John Roberts v. Jason Hollar, Chief Executive Officer of Cardinal Health, et al. Ohio 2023-11-06 Denied IFP bodily-integrity chips civil-rights consumer-protection due-process illegal-search illegal-seizure legal-claim manufacturing-defect privacy product-liability Whether the petitioner has standing to challenge the alleged involuntary implantation of RFID chips
23-5870 George Tolbert v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, dba Mr. Cooper Seventh Circuit 2023-10-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation consumer-protection discovery due-process federal-regulation foreclosure mortgage-foreclosure property-rights sanctions Whether Nationstar/Mr. Cooper failed to comply with discovery rules, the Dodd-Frank 120-day rule, and other consumer protection regulations, and wheth…
23-418 Concerned Household Electricity Consumers Council, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency District of Columbia 2023-10-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-action consumer-group consumer-prices consumer-protection federal-agency-action injury-in-fact price-impact standing Can the 'injury in fact' element of standing be established by an evidentiary showing of increased consumer prices?
23-5824 Alex Adams v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-10-17 Dismissed IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection due-process standing How can the FTC prove that they have an actual injury to a consumer's rights?
23-289 Marshall B. Lloyd, et al. v. Ford Motor Company Sixth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response Waived consumer-protection deceptive-advertising energy-policy-and-conservation-act epa-regulations epca-regulations fuel-economy implied-preemption preemption state-enforcement Are state deceptive advertising statutes impliedly preempted when the EPCA expressly permits state laws with requirements identical to those under the…
23-29 CLA Estate Services, Inc., et al. v. Washington Washington 2023-07-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights commercial-speech consumer-protection due-process fair-notice first-amendment free-speech state-action state-regulation vagueness Whether a company has fair notice under the Due Process Clause
22-1181 Evenflo Company, Inc. v. Mike Xavier, et al. First Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-rights class-action concrete-harm consumer-protection due-process economic-injury judicial-inference pleading-standard standing Whether a plaintiff alleging economic injury must plead facts to support his theory of harm, as several circuits require, or whether a court may suppl…
22-7193 Rafael Trevino v. U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee Connecticut 2023-04-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights consumer-protection due-process fair-lending fraud judicial-review mortgage-lending mortgage-underwriting payment-accounting predatory-lending standing Whether predatory mortgage lending practices are allowed in Connecticut
22-7060 Zachary James McAlexander v. D.G. Yuengling & Son, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection corporate-liability due-process false-advertising first-amendment seventh-amendment standing Why is the right to petition the government for grievances not being honored in this case, along with others, in accordance with the First Amendment a…
22-804 Lennar Carolinas, LLC v. Patricia Damico, et al. South Carolina 2023-02-24 Denied Response Waived anti-discrimination arbitration-agreement consumer-contracts consumer-protection contract-law equal-treatment equal-treatment-rule federal-arbitration-act homebuying state-law state-law-presumption Whether the Federal Arbitration Act prohibits courts from applying a state-law presumption expressly disfavoring enforcement of arbitration provisions…
22-663 Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited, et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) administrative-law appropriations-clause cfpb-regulation consumer-financial-protection consumer-protection due-process financial-regulation removal-power separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether the CFPB rule prohibiting certain preauthorized bank account withdrawals should be vacated
22-6559 Yan Minkovitch v. Ticor Title Company of California, et al. California 2023-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights community-property consumer-protection due-process family-law legal-standing marital-rights real-estate real-estate-transaction standing title-insurance Should private title insurers be permitted to force married couples to relinquish their state-law community property rights when purchasing a home?
22-583 Evan Greebel v. United States Second Circuit 2022-12-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-rights compensatory-payments consumer-credit-protection-act consumer-protection due-process earnings-definition garnishment garnishment-limitations mandatory-victims-restitution-act statutory-interpretation Whether lump-sum compensatory payments to an individual, such as those made pursuant to a retirement plan, qualify as 'earnings' subject to the CCPA's…
22-529 Alex Cantero, et al., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Bank of America, N.A. Second Circuit 2022-12-08 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) banking-regulation consumer-protection escrow-accounts interest-rates mortgage-lending national-bank-act preemption state-law state-law-preemption Does the National Bank Act preempt the application of state escrow-interest laws to national banks?
22-489 Kevin Charles Bertram v. U.S. Bank N.A., as Trustee Florida 2022-11-22 Denied consumer-protection creditor-notification lending-transaction notice-requirement rescission rescission-right right-to-rescind security-interest statute-of-limitations truth-in-lending-act Does a borrower have an absolute right to rescind a transaction under the Truth in Lending Act?
22-447 Johnson & Johnson, et al. v. California California 2022-11-15 Denied Amici (4) civil-penalties civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection due-process fair-notice false-advertising free-speech speech-chilling statutory-interpretation unfair-competition-law Whether a robust fair notice standard applies to California's Unfair Competition Law and False Advertising Law
22-5044 Richard Anthony Siler v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights consumer-protection data-protection direct-appeal due-process frivolous-claims habeas-corpus judicial-procedure privacy standing writ-of-certiorari Is it legal for a legitimate leads company to sell personal identities under any circumstance?
21-1604 Robin G. Thornton, et al. v. Tyson Foods, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response Waived agency-guidance consumer-protection federal-meat-inspection-act federalism food-labeling labeling-regulations meat-inspection-act preemption Can the beef packing industry and United States of Agriculture override the clearly stated Congressional purpose of enacting the Federal Meat Inspecti…
21-1435 Martin H. Leaf v. Nike, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-05-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights consumer-protection deceptive-conduct deceptive-practices free-speech internet-content pleading-standards standing state-of-mind subliminal-advertising Whether Michigan citizens are required to make a payment to be protected under the Michigan Consumer Protection Act
21-1031 Estate of Cheryl Beaudry v. Telecheck Services, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing check-reporting class-action consumer-protection consumer-reports fair-credit-reporting-act injury-in-fact positive-checkwriting-information putative-class-action risk-of-check-declines Whether Cheryl Beaudry suffered an injury in fact sufficient to confer Article III standing for an action under the Fair Credit Reporting Act
21-1002 Arthur Lopez v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied banking-regulations civil-rights consumer-protection due-process federal-liability financial-regulation mortgage mortgage-disclosure truth-in-lending Whether HSBC Bank USA, NA and former FBI Director James Comey should be held accountable for violations of mortgage/home equity protection statutes an…
21-684 Beverly Zylstra, et vir v. DRV, LLC Seventh Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied Response Waived breach-of-warranty circuit-split consumer-protection cure-opportunity federal-law judicial-uniformity jury-trial magnuson-moss-warranty-act repair-attempts warranty-claims What constitutes a 'reasonable opportunity to cure' under the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act?
21-318 Mark Leyse v. Bank of America, National Association Third Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing congress-lawmaking-authority congressional-intent consumer-protection intangible-harms spokeo-v-robins statutory-harm telemarketing-regulation telephone-consumer-protection-act unsolicited-telemarketing whether-congress-has-authority-to-identify-intangible-harms-under-article-iii
21-124 Emmanuel Torres v. Bay Area Credit Services, et al. Second Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied civil-rights consumer-protection debt-collection due-process fair-debt-collection federal-jurisdiction federal-statute new-york-business-law private-right-of-action statutory-interpretation Does a consumer have a private right of action under New York General Business Law Section 349 for a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Violation?
21-5137 Samantha Delane Rajapakse v. Credit Acceptance Corporation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights comprehensive-consumer-credit-reporting-act consumer-protection credit-reporting due-process fair-billing-act fair-credit-reporting fair-credit-reporting-act fourth-amendment magnuson-moss-act repossession sixth-circuit-jurisdiction Does the Sixth Circuit have the authority and jurisdiction to astray from the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court to affirm the District Court judg…
21-5040 Joseph A. Cunningham, Jr. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Third Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied IFP banking civil-rights consumer-protection contract-law due-process mortgage Whether the Mortgage Loan transaction is legal, given the issues raised regarding the Deceptive or Unconscionable nature of the Mortgage Contract, the…
20-1801 Darrel Mendez v. NRZ REO X LLC Arizona 2021-06-25 Denied civil-procedure consumer-protection deed-of-trust due-process foreclosure property-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-waiver takings trustee-sale Does the Arizona Deed of Trust Scheme provide good cause for removal of one or more of its provisions under severability?
20-1597 Kathryn MacEwen Conti v. Arrowood Indemnity Company Sixth Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge commercial-lending consumer-protection contract-law debt-classification non-dischargeable-debt promissory-notes student-loans Whether commercial lenders can create non-dischargeable debts by using language in promissory notes that identifies the loan as a 'student loan' or 'e…
20-1570 HRB Tax Group, Inc., et al. v. Derek Snarr Ninth Circuit 2021-05-12 Dismissed Amici (1)Relisted (2) arbitration-agreement california-law class-action class-action-waiver consumer-protection federal-arbitration-act preemption public-injunction public-injunctive-relief Whether California's public-policy rule declining to enforce agreements for individualized arbitration whenever a plaintiff seeks a public injunction …
20-1549 Jeffrey B. Broadhurst v. Citimortgage, Inc. Third Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure consumer-protection contract deposition-testimony due-process loan-modification standing summary-judgment third-circuit UTPCPL Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Affirming the District Court's Order Granting Respondent's Motion for Summary Judgment
20-658 Sherri Cohen v. Equifax Information Services, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied consumer-disputes consumer-protection credit-disputes credit-file-accuracy credit-repair credit-reporting credit-reporting-agencies fair-credit-reporting-act pro-se-litigation reasonable-investigation Whether CRAs can satisfy the FCRA's reasonable investigation requirement by merely verifying information with furnishers
20-376 DNF Associates, LLC v. Jillian McAdory Ninth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure consumer-protection debt-buyer debt-collection debt-collector fair-debt-collection-practices-act henson-v-santander legal-standing passive-debt-buyer statutory-interpretation Whether a passive debt buyer is a debt collector under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
20-5755 Joseph Lee Jones v. Google LLC Tenth Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights consumer-protection due-process first-amendment free-speech human-rights in-forma-pauperis legal-remedies three-strikes Whether the three strikes provision in 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g) violates the right of access to courts, as it is part of the right of petition protected by…
20-339 Jason Winer v. Coralys Negron, et al. Second Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure consumer-protection creditor-definition creditor-status de-facto-dealer district-court-jurisdiction state-law-claims Supplemental-jurisdiction unfair-trade-practices No question identified
20-166 Michael Scott Anglesey, et al. v. Allied Professionals Insurance Company, A Risk Retention Group, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Amici (2) arbitration-clause arbitration-clauses consumer-protection federal-preemption insurance-contract liability-risk-retention-act mccarran-ferguson-act risk-retention-group state-insurance-regulation state-law Whether the federal Liability Risk Retention Act preempts state laws prohibiting mandatory arbitration clauses in insurance contracts issued by risk r…
19-1171 Reed Kirk McDonald v. Citibank, N.A., et al. Colorado 2020-03-26 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection court-procedure due-process due-process,civil-procedure,tila,respa,dodd-frank, foreclosure jurisdictional-challenge respa-violation standing tila-claim writ-of-ejection Whether Mr. McDonald held any cognizable claim under TILA, RESPA, TRA, and Dodd-Frank against Citibank
19-1078 AT&T Mobility LLC, et al. v. Steven McArdle Ninth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied arbitration arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements california-law civil-procedure class-wide-injunction consumer-protection federal-arbitration-act preemption public-injunction public-injunctive-relief Whether California's public-policy rule conditioning the enforceability of arbitration agreements on acquiescence to public-injunction proceedings is …
19-988 Living Essentials, LLC, et al. v. Washington Washington 2020-02-06 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) central-hudson commercial-speech consumer-protection false-advertising federal-trade-commission first-amendment free-speech prior-substantiation substantiation-doctrine washington-state-law Whether the prior substantiation doctrine violates the First Amendment
19-914 Credit Bureau Center, LLC, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission Seventh Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Relisted (5) administrative-law consumer-protection consumer-redress enforcement-scheme federal-trade-commission ftc ftc-authority injunctive-relief permanent-injunction section-13(b) section-19 statutory-interpretation Whether Section 13(b)'s second proviso providing that the FTC 'may seek' a permanent injunction is an independent grant of authority to 'file suit' se…
19-763 Richard C. Angino, et ux. v. TransUnion LLC Third Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied accuracy accuracy-of-reports attorneys-fees circuit-split consumer-protection consumer-rights credit-reporting credit-reporting-accuracy credit-reports credit-scores due-process fair-credit-reporting-act standing Whether the Supreme Court should accept and decide this case that affects hundreds of millions of individuals
19-512 Anthony Robinson v. Department of Education Fourth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Relisted (3) civil-procedure civil-suit consumer-protection fair-credit-reporting-act federal-agency federal-government-liability sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation statutory-liability Whether the Fair Credit Reporting Act authorizes consumers to file civil suits against federal governmental agencies under 15 U.S.C. § 1681n and §1681…
19-6172 Samantha Delane Rajapakse v. Credit Acceptance Corporation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied IFP auto-lenders auto-lending consumer-protection consumer-protection-laws credit-reporting fair-credit-reporting fourth-amendment fraud payment-histories payment-history repossession wrongful-repossession wrongful-seizure Does the courts have jurisdiction to give auto lenders immunity from the Consumer Protection Laws enacted by congress when evidence in the court recor…
19-439 CTIA - The Wireless Association v. City of Berkeley, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Amici (6) commercial-speech compelled-disclosure compelled-speech consumer-protection disclosure-requirements first-amendment government-regulation intermediate-scrutiny zauderer zauderer-standard Whether Zauderer's reduced scrutiny of compelled commercial speech applies beyond the need to prevent consumer deception
19-100 Crown Asset Management LLC v. Mary Barbato Third Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split consumer-protection debt-buyer debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act legal-standing passive-debt-buyer standing statutory-interpretation Whether a passive debt buyer is a debt collector under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
18-1567 Alexander A. Benzemann v. Houslanger & Associates, PLLC, et al. Second Circuit 2019-06-24 Denied circuit-split civil-litigation civil-procedure consumer-protection discovery-rule fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-procedure standing statute-of-limitations Whether the discovery rule applies to toll the one-year statute of limitations under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1692, et seq…
18-1288 Jean Coulter v. ADT Security Services, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied choice-of-law civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection contract contract-interpretation contract-renewal contractual-limitations contractual-period due-process fraud fraud-in-inducement implied-contract public-safety statute-of-limitations Did ADT Security Services commit fraud in inducement, and is it applicable for renewals or later implied contracts?
18-8517 Roderick Jermaine Hall v. Sprint Corporation Fourth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied IFP antitrust civil-rights consumer-protection contract-disclosure contract-law disability-rights disclosure-requirements due-process false-advertising federal-regulations network-management service-limitations telecommunications telecommunications-law Whether Sprint failed to disclose information about network management practices for its Unlimited Freedom Plan and Apple iPhone 7 Plus
18-8413 Francisco K. Avoki v. Carolinas Telco Federal Credit Union, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection creditor-notification due-process rescission rescission-right standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation three-year-period tila truth-in-lending-act truth-in-lending-act-tila Does a borrower exercise his right to rescind a transaction in satisfaction of the requirement of Section 1635 by notifying the creditor in writing wi…
18-1012 Patrick Lafferty, et ux. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. California 2019-02-04 Denied attorney-fees california-consumers-legal-remedies-act consumer-legal-remedies-act consumer-protection consumer-protection-act federal-trade-commission holder-rule implied-cause-of-action preemption private-cause-of-action private-right-of-action unfair-or-deceptive-acts Whether the Holder Rule" implies a new private cause of action and whether the "Holder Rule" cap preempts the California Consumers Legal Remedies Act"
18-7738 Kukia R. Farrish v. Navy Federal Credit Union Fourth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights consumer-financial-protection-bureau consumer-protection credit-card-agreement credit-report credit-reporting damages debt-collection digital-forensics document-manipulation due-process electronic-evidence evidentiary-standards federal-credit-union financial-regulation judicial-review procedural-integrity Whether the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unlawfully collected debts from the petitioner, and whether the petitioner is entitled to compensatio…
18-991 Levi Huebner v. Midland Credit Management, et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response Waived circuit-split consumer-protection consumer-rights fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act least-sophisticated-consumer oral-dispute statutory-interpretation written-dispute Whether oral disputes under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act must be treated with the same validity as written disputes
18-7638 John Todd Williams v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-violation civil-violations consumer-protection criminal-prosecution debt-collection deceptive-tactics fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act fdcpa federal-law misrepresentations Whether the courts below erroneously held that Mr. Williams and his companies could be prosecuted criminally for acts his employees committed that hav…
18-7508 Patrick Brooks v. Pinnacle Financial Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights consumer-protection due-process foreclosure home-rescission jesinoski-v-countrywide-home-loans res-judicata rescission supreme-court-precedent truth-in-lending-act Whether a lender can use res-judicata to bar examination of an invalid foreclosure that was barred by federal-consumer-protection-law
18-7241 Mary-Ann Bernadette Kerrigan v. QBE Insurance Corporation Ninth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bad-faith-investigation breach-of-contract civil-rights consumer-protection criminal-activity criminal-damages criminal-law due-process insurance insurance-coverage insurance-investigation insurance-regulations procedural-error property-damage property-rights statute-of-limitations Whether QBE insurance improperly denied coverage for insured damages caused by criminal activity
18-778 St. Louis Heart Center, Inc. v. Nomax, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-rights consumer-protection due-process opt-out-notice spokeo-injury standing statutory-damages tcpa-disclosure telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether a failure to disclose information mandated by federal law is a concrete injury in itself, or whether a plaintiff must show additional harm
18-729 Maxwell & Morgan, P.C., et al. v. Martha A. McNair Ninth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Relisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure consumer consumer-protection debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act fdcpa foreclosure judicial-foreclosure security-interest statutory-interpretation Whether the FDCPA applies to foreclosure activity that does not seek payment of money from a consumer
18-546 Brian E. Frosh, Attorney General of Maryland, et al. v. Association for Accessible Medicines Fourth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) commerce-clause consumer-protection dormant-commerce-clause drug-pricing extraterritoriality federalism generic-drugs prescription-drugs price-control price-gouging state-police-powers state-regulation Does the Commerce Clause prohibit a state from protecting consumer access to essential off-patent and generic prescription drugs by requiring manufact…
18-6259 Lou Tyler v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias big-business cfpb-enforcement civil-rights consumer-protection due-process fair-credit-reporting fair-debt-collection foreclosure judicial-bias mortgage-foreclosure pro-se pro-se-litigation standing statute-of-limitations Why did lower courts refuse to hear Plaintiff's case, is there bias in favor of Big Business?
18-6254 Lou Tyler v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias bias-in-courts big-business civil-rights consumer-protection due-process fair-credit-reporting-act fair-debt-collection-protection-agency federal-jurisdiction foreclosure mortgage-foreclosure pro-se pro-se-litigation standing statute-of-limitations Why did lower courts refuse to hear Plaintiff's case, is there bias in favor of Big Business?
18-425 Alvin E. Williams, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2018-10-03 Denied Response Waived appeal civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection consumer-warranty-act court-of-appeals due-process fraud fraud-upon-court judgment rico rico-violation song-beverly-consumer-warranty-act superior-court Did the Court of Appeals Second Appellate District Affirm the Judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles in favor of Petitioners Alvin E. Williams …
18-328 Kevin C. Rotkiske v. Paul Klemm, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-13 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Response RequestedRelisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure consumer-protection discovery-rule fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations Whether the 'discovery rule' applies to toll the one-year statute of limitations under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1692, et s…
18-304 Kimberly-Clark Corporation, et al. v. Jennifer Davidson Ninth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied article-iii-standing consumer-protection consumer-standing deception declaratory-judgment false-advertising future-harm injunctive-relief product-misrepresentation standing Whether a consumer who has used a product and determined that a representation concerning that product is allegedly misleading can plausibly allege a …
18-244 Charles E. Woide, et ux. v. Federal National Mortgage Association Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-code-interpretation bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split consumer-protection consumer-rights consummation contractual-obligation creditor-defenses creditor-rights declaratory-relief notice-of-rescission regulation-z rescission rescission-notice statutory-interpretation truth-in-lending-act Whether the rescission is effectuated upon mailing of notice where no challenge was raised within 20 days of receipt of said notice?
18-223 In Re Christopher Dawson 2018-08-21 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights consumer-protection due-process financial-misconduct foreclosure standing Whether Christopher Dawson has been denied due process rights by US courts and government agencies, whether he is entitled to relief under 28 USC 1651…
18-86 The Sherwin-Williams Company v. California California 2018-07-18 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) causation civil-rights consumer-protection due-process first-amendment free-speech product-promotion public-nuisance retroactive-liability Whether the First Amendment permits imposing tort liability for truthfully promoting a lawful product later deemed hazardous