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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? …
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 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…
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…
23-6284 David Pontier v. Joseph Dang, dba Law Office of Joseph Dang Ninth Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied IFP civil-procedure conflict-of-interest fdcpa federal-interpleader federal-jurisdiction interpleader judicial-ethics standing statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
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
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…
18-1196 In Re William Kinney, et ux. 2019-03-14 Denied 14th-amendment all-writs-act civil-rights district-court-discretion district-court-jurisdiction due-process equitable-tolling fair-debt-collection fdcpa fdcpa-claim federal-jurisdiction mandamus state-court-jurisdiction state-court-proceedings stay-of-proceedings title-42-claims Challenging dismissal of FDCPA and civil rights claims, seeking reinstatement and stay of state court proceedings
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