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The Consumer Financial Services Committee held its monthly Zoom meeting on August 18th. Read more

The Consumer Financial Services Committee held its monthly Zoom meeting on July 28th. Here’s a summary and a few notes on upcoming meetings and topics. Read more

In Facebook v. Duguid, --- S. Ct. ----, 2021 WL 1215717 (Apr. 1, 2021), a unanimous United States Supreme Court on April 1, 2021, resolved more than a decade of Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) litigation and untold millions of dollars in claims by disentangling the contorted definition of automatic telephone dialing system (ATDS), or autodialer. Courts have struggled to uniformly define this equipment, creating a Circuit split. Read more

On September 28, 2020, on an issue of first impression, a federal district court in Louisiana held that the TCPA’s autodialer and pre-recorded message provision (the “automated-call ban”) is unconstitutional as applied to any calls made between November 2015 and July 6, 2020. Read more

In Glasser v. Hilton Grand Vacations Company, LLC., No. 18-1449 (2020), the Eleventh Circuit ruled that the TCPA’s definition of an auto-dialer requires random or sequential number generation. This decision aligns with the Third Circuit and certain district courts that are split with the Ninth. In Marks v. Crunch San Diego, LLC, 904 F.3d 1041 (2018), the Ninth Circuit broadly construed the definition to include equipment that dials automatically from a stored list. Glasser adopts a significantly narrower definition. Read more

In Frazier v. First Advantage Background Services Corp., No. 3:17cv30, 2019 WL 4601616 (E. D. Va. Sep. 23, 2019), the Eastern District of Virginia issued an erudite opinion offering guidance on when the Supreme Court’s Spokeo decision might apply to the challenge of a Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) claim. Read more

The Consumer Financial Services Committee will be holding a meeting on Thursday, July 18, from 11:30 to 12:30. The dial-in number is (855) 520-7605 and conference code is 9085 062 381#. Read more

Our very own Julie Greenfield will be presenting on "The Revenge of the HELOCs: Another Foreclosure Crisis?" (presentation attached). She recently presented this to the Orange County Bar Association and we are lucky to have the opportunity to hear it too! Read more

On January 21, 2016, the California Supreme Court ruled that the state’s anti-deficiency statute enumerated under California Code of Civil Procedure Section 580b applied to short sales in addition to foreclosures.  Coker v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., S213137, 2016 WL 240901 (Cal. Jan. 21, 2016).  Section 580b states that no deficiency judgment may be obtained by the lender against the borrower when he/she defaults on a purchase money loan and the lender exhausts its security via sale under the deed of… Read more

On December 4, 2015, The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) reached an agreement to end litigation with five of the six defendants stemming from the complaint filed April 15, 2015, against Chad Caldaronello, Derek Nelson, Brian Pacios, Cortney Gonsalves, and Justin Moreira, DBA HOPE Services and HAMP Services.  Litigation against a sixth defendant, Denny Lake, has not settled. The original complaint, which was filed under seal, sought to obtain permanent injunctive relief, rescission of contracts restitution, refund of monies paid, and… Read more