| 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?
… |
| 25A549 |
In Re Henry L. Klein |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Application |
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business-qualification debt-collection debt-purchaser henson-v-santander special-purpose-vehicle supremacy-clause |
Whether the Supreme Court will enforce the Henson v. Santander ruling as the supreme law of the land regarding debt ownership and collection rights un… |
| 25-377 |
North American Credit Services, Inc. v. Abdul Crawford |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
bona-fide-error consumer-debt debt-collection fdcpa medical-debt workers-compensation |
1. Whether the FDCPA requires third party debt collectors to conduct an independent preemptive investigation to review for all potential defects or ch… |
| 24-1165 |
Abraham Winter v. Laboratory Corporation of America, et al. |
New York |
2025-05-14 |
Denied |
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commercial-enterprise creditor-definition debt-collection fdcpa ftc-authority principal-purpose-test |
Is an entity a creditor under FDCPA if they are not owed a debt, and should the test for 'name other than his own' follow the FTC's opinion or the sta… |
| 24-7002 |
In Re Clifford L. Noll |
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2025-04-16 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
debt-collection due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment fourth-amendment property-seizure |
Whether the unwarranted seizure of real properties and personal savings by the United States violated the petitioner's Fourth and Fifth Amendment righ… |
| 24-5760 |
James Taylor v. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
11th-circuit-precedent debt-collection debt-collector fair-debt-collection-practices-act legal-standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC qualifies as a debt collector under 15 U.S.C. § 1692a(6) and is subject to Fair Debt Collection Practices A… |
| 24-262 |
Stacy Makhnevich v. Gregory S. Bougopoulos, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-09 |
Dismissed |
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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 … |
| 24A143 |
Stacy Makhnevich v. Novick Edelstein Pomerantz, P.C., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Presumed Complete |
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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… |
| 23-785 |
PHH Mortgage Corporation v. Mark Anthony Guthrie |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-22 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court civil-contempt debt-collection discharge-injunction federal-preemption preemption state-law-claims uniform-federal-law |
Whether the Bankruptcy Code preempts state-law claims premised on alleged efforts to collect a debt in violation of the bankruptcy court's discharge i… |
| 23A518 |
PHH Mortgage Corporation v. Mark Anthony Guthrie |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Presumed Complete |
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bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-discharge debt-collection discharge-injunction preemption state-law-claims |
Whether the Bankruptcy Code preempts state-law causes of action based on a creditor's efforts to collect debt that has been discharged in bankruptcy |
| 23-109 |
Janis Wolf v. Carpenter, Hazlewood, Delgado & Bolen, LLP |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split credit-reporting credit-reporting-agencies credit-transaction debt-collection deferred-payment fair-credit-reporting-act homeowners-association |
Whether a typical HOA assessment qualifies as an FCRA 'credit transaction' |
| 22-1072 |
Lori A. Saxon v. Ameritas Life Insurance Corporation |
District of Columbia |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
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1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 7th-amendment bankruptcy-law constitutional-rights debt-collection due-process homestead-law judicial-foreclosure |
Were Lori Saxon's fundamental guaranteed rights to Due Process and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Ist, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 14th amendments violated? |
| 22-169 |
Jay Lin, et ux. v. Hudson City Savings Bank, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-08-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure debt-collection due-process fair-debt-collection-practices-act fdcpa federal-court-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-ethics procedural-rules recusal |
Whether the New Jersey District Court judge erred in circumventing his recusal by suspending FRCP R. 7.1 |
| 21-982 |
Timothy O. Markland v. Asset Acceptance, LLC |
Oklahoma |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure debt-collection default-judgment due-process extrinsic-evidence service-of-process statute-of-limitations time-bar |
Whether rigid invocation of the non-extrinsic evidence rule denies due process |
| 21-912 |
Jeffrey T. Maehr v. Department of State |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-action civil-rights constitutional-rights debt-collection due-process government-sanction passport passport-revocation tax tax-debt travel |
Whether the federal government may collect tax debts by revoking citizens' constitutional right to travel internationally |
| 21-472 |
Blanca Telephone Company v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-forfeiture debt-collection due-process false-claims-act rulemaking universal-service-fund |
Whether FCC staff seizure of Universal Service Fund funding via civil forfeiture is 'pure debt collection' under the Debt Collection Improvement Act o… |
| 21-124 |
Emmanuel Torres v. Bay Area Credit Services, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-29 |
Denied |
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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? |
| 21-98 |
Frank C. Warner v. Miguel Cardona, Secretary of Education |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
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circuit-confusion civil-procedure contract contract-enforcement debt-collection economic-policy legal-standard promissory-note statute-of-frauds |
Is a fully legible Promissory Note (Contract) required to collect on a debt? |
| 21-5121 |
Ben Young v. Crescent Management, LLC, et al. |
Oklahoma |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11-usc-362 attorney-misconduct automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay creditor debt-collection mortgage-concealment mortgage-payment proof-of-claim |
Whether attorneys who filed and signed Proof of Claim on behalf of creditor violate automatic stay 11 U.S.C. §362(a)(D)(2)(82) (QO) by concealing mort… |
| 20-1684 |
Sean Hartranft v. Midland Funding, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-04 |
Denied |
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civil-procedure debt-collection due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intervention standing telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Whether the Court of Appeals committed reversible error when it denied Petitioner's Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 24(a) motion to intervene as a ma… |
| 20-8117 |
Russell Arrington v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
N.A. is exempt from various statutory regulations bank-foreclosure constitutional-rights debt-collection fair-credit-reporting fair-credit-reporting-act fair-debt-collection-practices-act power-of-attorney promissory-note sheriff-deed statutory-exemption uniform-commercial-code warranty-deed |
Is WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. exempt from the Uniform Commercial Code? |
| 20-1634 |
Nicole Johnson-Gellineau v. Stiene & Associates, P.C., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
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15-usc-1692a(4) 15-usc-1692c(b) creditor creditor-definition debt-collection debt-collector fair-debt-collection-practices-act fiduciary fiduciary-duty litigation-communication statutory-interpretation |
Whether a fiduciary that obtains a defaulted debt, and is owed the debt, may qualify as a person facilitating collection 'for another' within the excl… |
| 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 |
| 20-5541 |
Betsy Sachs v. Bank of America, N.A. |
First Circuit |
2020-08-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
arbitration attorney-conduct civil-rights debt-collection due-process fdcpa foreclosure judicial-procedure manifest-disregard |
Whether the definition of a 'debt collector' under the FDCPA includes attorneys who select non-judicial foreclosure |
| 20-121 |
Marshall Spiegal v. Michael C. Kim |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collateral-estoppel debt-collection debt-collector-allegations debtor-conduct direct-connection fair-debt-collection-practices-act fdcpa judicial-notice statutory-interpretation transaction-nexus |
Does 'arising out of' require a 'direct' connection to the transaction? |
| 19-6958 |
Renee L. McCray v. Samuel I. White, P.C., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
bona-fide-error civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules debt-collection due-process fair-debt-collection-practices-act fdcpa federal-appeals federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourth-circuit jerman-v-carlisle rehearing standing summary-judgment |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it denied the Petitioner's petition for rehearing, when the United States District Cour… |
| 19-6630 |
Dannez W. Hunter v. Keith Rupert Murdoch, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
1866-civil-rights-act 42-usc-1981 civil-rights commerce commerce-interference copyright-infringement debt-collection interstate-commerce judicial-misconduct rico rico-statute title-42-usc-1981 ucc-lien |
Whether to establish 1866 Civil Rights Act, Title 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (a) against high-ranking government officials and officers of the court |
| 19-483 |
Elsie Marino v. Jeffrey Nadel, dba Law Offices of Jeffrey Nadel, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
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creditor debt-assignment debt-collection fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act foreclosure foreclosure-action postjudgment-remedy standing statutory-interpretation trustee trustee-status |
Whether a trustee that receives assignment or transfer of a debt, as trustee for beneficial interest holders solely to bring a foreclosure action, can… |
| 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 |
| 18-7738 |
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… |
| 18-7638 |
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… |
| 18-729 |
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 |
| 18-595 |
James P. Tatten v. City and County of Denver, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
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civil-procedure civil-rights debt-collection due-process fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act foreclosure fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation rooker-feldman-doctrine standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in creating a special pro se pleading standard for cognitively-disabled litigants |
| 18-390 |
Sandra Pletos, et vir v. Makower Abatte Guerra Wegner Vollmer, PLLC , et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse civil-rights concealment contract contractual-rights debt-collection due-process fraud fraud-concealment homeowners-association rico-act rooker-feldman |
Whether Rooker-Feldman can be used to prevent parties from asserting their contractual rights, and new independent claims for relief based on statutes… |
| 18-332 |
Kevin Singson v. Sean Reyes, Attorney General of Utah |
Utah |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure administrative-procedures civil-rights debt-collection due-process extraordinary-writ governmental-power sovereign-immunity standing state-action state-agency state-courts unfair-collection |
Whether the Utah State Supreme Court erred in affirming the Utah Court of Appeals in denying that a specific remedy exists for a citizen to challenge … |