Does this sound familiar: You answer a phone call from a number you don’t recognize. The automated voice on the other end of the call congratulates you on possibly winning a free vacation cruise. In reality, you probably did not win a cruise.
– Macy’s Inc. offered a peek behind the curtain of its debt-collection practices this week while defending itself from a lawsuit alleging it made robocalls in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. Orlando, Florida resident Deborah Clark claims she was harassed by automated calls for more than a year by Macy’s, even after she told the company that it was her daughter’s …
The most effective way to fight telemarketers? Sue them and force a settlement—one worth up to $12.5 million. A Chicago judge approved a settlement last month that forces Carnival, Norwegian, Royal Caribbean, and a marketing company that worked with them to pay up for spamming people with pre-recorded telemarketing calls that promoted the cruise lines.
Thanks to a class-action lawsuit, people who received telemarkerting calls promising a free cruise between 2009 and 2014 could be entitled to $900. The class-action lawsuit alleged that a company called Resort Marketing Group violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act when they made robocalls, allegedly offering free Caribbean cruises. Resort Marketing Group has denied any wrongdoing, but …
A Ridgecrest man has filed a class-action lawsuit against EGS Financial Care Inc., a debt collector, and a number of its employees, citing alleged violation of telephone harassment statutes. Laurence Clayton, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, filed a complaint on April 3 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana alleging that the …
When a domestic violence survivor calls 911 against a dangerous ex, they don’t usually assume they’ll get kicked out of town. And yet that’s what the ACLU says happened to Rosetta Watson, who used to live in the small town of Maplewood, Missouri. She called authorities four times on an abusive former boyfriend from September 2011 to February 2012, according to the federal lawsuit filed Friday.
Last week Wells Fargo agreed to two separate Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) Class Action Settlements. Both cases were filed in federal court in Georgia. The first was Prather v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
The family of Tony Robinson, the 19-year-old fatally shot by police in Madison in 2015, has apparently settled a federal civil rights lawsuit. Family members and their attorneys plan to hold a news conference Thursday to discuss the $3.3 million settlement. Madison police officer Matt Kenny, who is white, shot the unarmed black teenager March 6, 2015 in an apartment house …
A debt collection agency headquartered in Houston has been named in a lawsuit for alleged violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) after it allegedly called a woman while trying to collect a debt from someone else. According to the complaint filed by Cristina Labreau in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District …
Grand Rapids is hoping a federal judge will speed up the process of firing three officers implicated in the case of a former assistant prosecutor’s wrong-way crash in November. The city filed a lawsuit in federal court Friday, Feb. 3, asking a judge to settle a dispute between the city and its police unions. The disagreement regards five phone calls between the officers — …