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Fourth Circuit Holds No Article III Standing Where No Third-Party Viewed Inaccurate Information

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On September 11, 2024, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that there is no publication to a third party — and therefore no Article III standing under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) — where the recipient of a...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Third Circuit: Consumer Does Not Have Standing to Raise FDCPA Challenge to Debt Collection Agency’s Disclosure of Private...

In Barclift v. Keystone Credit Services, LLC, the Philadelphia-based United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit determined that a Consumer did not have standing to sue under Fair Debt Collection Practices Act...more

Rosenberg Martin Greenberg LLP

Is the End Near for Third Party Releases In Chapter 11 Plans?

When the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, the foundation on which the current Bankruptcy Code is constructed, was enacted, bankruptcy cases customarily involved a debtor addressing claims only against it. Consistent with that...more

McGlinchey Stafford

Is the Tide Shifting on Hunstein?- The Bullet Point: A Commercial Law Bulletin

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Ohio- Restrictive Covenants- New California Woods Homeowners Assn. v. Jakse, 3d Dist. Union No. 14-21-04, 2021-Ohio-3783 In this appeal, the Third Appellate District affirmed the trial court’s decision, agreeing that...more

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Business Restructuring Review | July-August 2021

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Chapter 15 Update: U.S. Bankruptcy Court Refuses To Enforce Order Approving Indonesian Debt Restructuring Plan Due To Third-party Releases - Cross-border bankruptcy cases filed in the U.S. under chapter 15 of the...more

Snell & Wilmer

Hunstein v. Preferred Collection & Mgmt. Servs., Inc. – Debt Collector Looks to Rehearing for Relief in Landmark Eleventh Circuit...

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“A may not share information about B with C.” In response to this simple yet dramatic holding at the heart of an Eleventh Circuit case of first impression regarding the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act (FDCPA), appellant...more

Carlton Fields

More Is Not Merrier: Eleventh Circuit Sends Message to Debt Collectors Using Third-Party Vendors

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The Eleventh Circuit’s decision in Hunstein v. Preferred Collection & Management Services Inc. has already changed the status quo in the debt collection industry, as the court itself predicted. Whether it will lead to any...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

New Federal Appellate FDCPA Decision Threatens to Upend Debt Collection and Loan Servicing

On April 21, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued a decision that threatens significant consequences for a variety of loan servicing and debt collection industries. The upshot of the court’s holding...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - April 2021

Wi-LAN Inc. v. Sharp Electronics Corporation, Appeal Nos. 2020-1041, -1043 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 6, 2021) - In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit addressed issues of claim construction and various issues...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Ninth Circuit Rules That Users, Not Consumers, Must Prove an Authorized Purpose for Obtaining a Consumer Report

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Synopsis: Last month, the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion, affirming broad Article III standing and holding that, for permissible-purpose claims, a consumer-plaintiff need allege only that his/her credit report was obtained...more

Dechert LLP

Millennium Lab Part II: Delaware Bankruptcy Court Dispels Shadow Over Non-Consensual Third-Party Releases (For Now)

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In trotting a path out of Chapter 11, debtors in most cases will need to engage various key stakeholders, some of whom are not entitled to a distribution in the bankruptcy. As a form of remuneration, non-debtors may insist on...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Commercial Division Rejects Third-Party Claim as Derivative in Trusts’ Suit Concerning Upper West Side Beaux-Arts Building

Asserting a claim on behalf of a trust in the Commercial Division can be risky, as the party asserting the claim must establish that the claimed injury is independent of any injury to the trust, and that they are therefore...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Mobile App VPPA Suit Survives Spokeo Standing Challenge

In Yershov v. Gannett Satellite Information Network, Inc., a user of the free USA Today app alleged that each time he viewed a video clip, the app transmitted his mobile Android ID, GPS coordinates and identification of the...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

TCPA Connect - September 2015

No Need to Wait for the U.S. Supreme Court—Seventh Circuit Rules on Mooting Offers in TCPA Suits - The latest court to weigh in on an offer of judgment in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act Suit: the Seventh Circuit...more

Proskauer - Privacy & Cybersecurity

4th Time is Not a Charm: Android Users Plead Themselves Out of Court

Finding that the Plaintiffs lacked Article III standing to pursue their case, Google, Inc. (“Google”) won dismissal of the Android users’ putative class action lawsuit after more than three years of litigation. In re Google...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Viewing Unsolicited Fax Not Required for TCPA Standing

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The Sixth Circuit recently held that standing to sue under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) does not require the plaintiff to have printed, or even viewed, a fax advertisement that violates the TCPA. The Court...more

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