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Plaintiff filed a class-action complaint in Arkansas state court, alleging that Walgreens’ rewards program violated Arkansas’ statutory prohibition on price discrimination in the sale of manufactured products. Defendants removed the case to federal court, alleging jurisdiction under the Class Action ...

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Plaintiff was licensed as a money lender by the South Dakota Division of Banking. Defendant sent plaintiff a cease-and-desist and license-revocation order, ordering plaintiff to surrender its money-lending licenses. Plaintiff filed the present §1983 complaint, alleging its license revocation without ...

Tagged with: Money Lender Procedural Due Process Revocation of License

Plaintiffs appealed the dismissal of their purported class action under the FDCPA. Where the least-sophisticated-consumer standard contained an objective element of reasonableness to avoid peculiar interpretations of debt-collector communications, the district court properly denied plaintiffs’ complaint. Judgment is affirmed. Carroll ...

Tagged with: class action FDCPA Least-Sophisticated Consumer

Plaintiffs appealed the dismissal of their putative class-action lawsuit against defendants, challenging defendant First Federal Bank of Kansas City’s absorption of Inter-State Federal Savings and Loan Association of Kansas City. Plaintiffs were members of Inter-State and alleged that the merger ...

Tagged with: Failure to Distribute Surplus Assets Inequitable Merger Mutual Savings and Loan Association

Where a car buyer claimed that the seller violated the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act by selling her a defective car without clear title, and the trial court first entered judgment in favor of the plaintiff and then replaced it with ...

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Defendant James Leininger financed a firm; the marketing company for the film hired defendant ccAdvertising to conduct a telephone marketing campaign. The company made 3.2 million phone calls in one week; plaintiffs received two of the messages and sued the ...

Tagged with: Personal Liability Standing Telephone Consumer Protection Act

Plaintiff appealed the dismissal of his complaint of deceptive trade practices against his mortgage lender and related parties. Where plaintiff failed to plead his allegations of fraud with requisite particularity, the district court properly dismissed his complaint. Judgment is affirmed. ...

Tagged with: Deceptive Trade Practices Fraud Pleading Requirements Mortgage Lender

A group of customers sued defendants following a hacker breach that resulted in access to the customers’ financial information. The court previously dismissed all but one plaintiff for lack of standing. The district court subsequently dismissed the remaining plaintiff for ...

Tagged with: Customer Information Breach Failure to State a Claim Proof of Damages

Where a plaintiff argued that the content of a debt-collection letter violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the district court properly dismissed her lawsuit because the letter was not false or misleading when viewed through the eyes of an ...

Plaintiff filed suit against his mortgagee, alleging it illegally imposed lender insurance for plaintiff’s failure to obtain mortgage insurance and further alleging the mortgagee improperly reneged on a rate-reduction agreement between plaintiff and the mortgagee’s predecessor. The district court dismissed ...

Tagged with: Consumer Law Evidence of Agreement Home Equity Loan Imposition of Lender Insurance

Plaintiff appealed the circuit court’s order denying its motion to compel arbitration and stay proceeding on defendant’s claims. The parties executed contracts for consumer loans that contained arbitration clause granting exclusive jurisdiction to the National Arbitration Forum; thereafter, NAF entered ...

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