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Oct 14, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | David Anthony |Noah DiPasquale
[co-author: Allie Voehringer]The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts recently denied a credit repair organization’s motion for partial summary judgment and granted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’s motion for summary judgment in a case alleging violations of the Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR), the Consumer Financial Protection Act (CFPA), and Massachusetts state law.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
insidearm.com | David Anthony |Alan D. Wingfield |Noah DiPasquale
Consumer reporting dominates complaints to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), according to a new report.The Congressional Research Service (CRS), a nonpartisan shared staff to congressional committees and Members of Congress, issued a report discussing the CFPB’s consumer complaint process and public database. Their review of the consumer complaints submitted to the CFPB in fiscal year 2023 revealed that the significant majority (over 80%) were related to credit reporting.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | David Anthony |Noah DiPasquale |Alan D. Wingfield
Consumer reporting dominates complaints to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), according to a new report. The Congressional Research Service (CRS), a nonpartisan shared staff to congressional committees and Members of Congress, issued a report discussing the CFPB’s consumer complaint process and public database. Their review of the consumer complaints submitted to the CFPB in fiscal year 2023 revealed that the significant majority (over 80%) were related to credit reporting.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
lexblog.com | David Anthony |Alan D. Wingfield |Noah DiPasquale
Consumer reporting dominates complaints to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), according to a new report. The Congressional Research Service (CRS), a nonpartisan shared staff to congressional committees and Members of Congress, issued a report discussing the CFPB’s consumer complaint process and public database. Their review of the consumer complaints submitted to the CFPB in fiscal year 2023 revealed that the significant majority (over 80%) were related to credit reporting.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | David Anthony |Joshua D. Davey |Noah DiPasquale
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
jdsupra.com | David Anthony |Peter Cox |Noah DiPasquale
On October 18, Judge Rebecca Beach Smith of the Eastern District of Virginia approved a $70 million settlement in an antitrust case, with more than $23.3 million awarded to the plaintiffs’ attorneys. This case helpfully illustrates the factors courts in the Fourth Circuit analyze when considering class action settlements and showcases the sizable fees plaintiffs’ attorneys can obtain. The case is In re Zetia (Ezetimibe) Antitrust Litigation, No. 2:18-md-02836-RBS-DEM.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
lexblog.com | Peter Cox |Noah DiPasquale |David Anthony
On October 18, Judge Rebecca Beach Smith of the Eastern District of Virginia approved a $70 million settlement in an antitrust case, with more than $23.3 million awarded to the plaintiffs’ attorneys. This case helpfully illustrates the factors that courts in the Fourth Circuit analyze when considering class action settlements, and showcases the sizable fees plaintiffs’ attorneys can obtain. The case is In re Zetia (Ezetimibe) Antitrust Litigation, No. 2:18-md-02836-RBS-DEM.
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Oct 20, 2023 | 
jdsupra.com | David Anthony |Noah DiPasquale |Ethan G. Ostroff
On October 12, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois denied certification of a putative class action asserting that TransUnion violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act (MMPA) by allegedly misleading consumers about the accuracy and popularity of VantageScore 1.0, TransUnion’s proprietary credit scoring model.
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Oct 19, 2023 | 
lexblog.com | David Anthony |Noah DiPasquale |Ronald I. Raether |Ethan G. Ostroff
On October 12, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois denied certification of a putative class action asserting that TransUnion violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act (MMPA) by allegedly misleading consumers about the accuracy and popularity of VantageScore 1.0, TransUnion’s proprietary credit scoring model.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
jdsupra.com | David Anthony |Peter Cox |Noah DiPasquale
Plaintiffs who secure a preliminary injunction may now be able to recover attorney’s fees in the Eastern District of Virginia, due to the Fourth Circuit’s departure from its previous position that such plaintiffs are not “prevailing parties” for purposes of recovering attorney’s fees. On August 7, 2023, the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sitting en banc in Stinnie, et al., v. Holcomb, 77 F.4th 200 (4th Cir.
