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21 Jul 2011, 5:10 am by Bill
" Said Senator Ron Johnson, who is blocking Obama's nominee to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. [read post]
24 Sep 2014, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
 That issue is currently on appeal to the 7th Circuit after a federal district court held that the Trust asssets were not available to creditors. [read post]
20 Oct 2017, 12:52 pm
United States, 529 F.2d 125, 128 n.2 (7th Cir. 1975) (same).As the case works its way up through appeals, I suspect that discussion of the Supreme Court precedents and their interactions will move from the footnotes to the text of whatever opinions result. [read post]
20 Oct 2017, 12:52 pm
United States, 529 F.2d 125, 128 n.2 (7th Cir. 1975) (same).As the case works its way up through appeals, I suspect that discussion of the Supreme Court precedents and their interactions will move from the footnotes to the text of whatever opinions result. [read post]
23 Sep 2021, 2:35 pm by Christopher P. Hahn
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently affirmed judgment in a debt collector’s favor against claims that its efforts to collect attorney’s fees incurred to collect a debt — including the fees incurred in collecting the attorney’s fees — violated the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. [read post]
6 Apr 2017, 11:20 am by Christopher P. Hahn
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently affirmed the dismissal of a borrower’s lawsuit against his mortgagee, its former employees, counsel and appellate counsel, and the original mortgagee’s software platform creator, under various federal and state consumer protection statutes and common law torts. [read post]
2 Nov 2017, 8:57 am by Hector E. Lora
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently affirmed the dismissal of a bank’s lawsuit against its insurer for breach of contract and bad faith denial of coverage, holding that the insurance policy’s exclusion for any claim based upon or arising from fees or charges applied to the facts alleged. [read post]
21 Nov 2017, 7:12 am by Eric Tsai
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently held that federal laws exempting federal entities from state and local taxation do not apply when the transfer tax is charged to a private buyer who purchases real estate from Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, or the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). [read post]
16 Feb 2016, 10:39 am by Stuart Miles
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently upheld the dismissal of allegations that two letters sent to the consumer’s counsel violated the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), reiterating that its “competent attorney” standard applies regardless of whether a statement to the consumer’s counsel is false, misleading or deceptive. [read post]
25 Jul 2023, 6:10 am by Daniel Miller
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently affirmed a summary judgment ruling in favor of a mortgage loan servicer and held that no reasonable jury could find that the servicer provided patently incorrect or materially misleading information sufficient to support a claim under Section 1681s-2(b) of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act. [read post]
17 Aug 2021, 3:48 am by Daniel Miller
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently reversed the dismissal of a plaintiff’s complaint alleging supposed violations of the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act and the Illinois Automatic Telephone Dialing Act, concluding that the plaintiff alleged enough of an agency relationship between the defendants and the entities that placed the subject calls for the complaint to move forward. [read post]
17 Oct 2016, 6:10 am by Richa Sadana
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently held that a credit reporting agency had no duty under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), 15 U.S.C. [read post]
26 Jun 2023, 6:53 am by Daniel Miller
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently rejected a bankruptcy trustee's avoidance and fraudulent transfer claims, holding that a debt purchase and sale agreement between a bankrupt debtor, its original creditor, and its new creditor was not avoidable because it did not qualify as a transfer of “an interest of the debtor in property. [read post]
30 Dec 2016, 6:57 am by Richard Payne
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently held that a bank’s lawsuit against the husband of a debtor who had filed for bankruptcy did not violate the co-debtor stay because the husband’s credit card debts were not a consumer debt for which the debtor was personally liable. [read post]
21 Aug 2023, 9:05 am by Daniel Miller
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently affirmed a summary judgment ruling in favor of the defendant banks. [read post]
7 Jun 2016, 5:19 am by Coleman Braun
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently held that the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) does not prohibit debt collectors from filing a collection lawsuit without intending to proceed to trial to obtain a judgment. [read post]
8 Feb 2017, 7:35 am by Morgan Hochheiser
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently held that a bank’s relationship with a software services company, under which the software services company required its customers to use the bank for the depositary services ancillary to the software, did not violate anti-tying provisions of the federal Bank Holding Company Act, at 12 […] Morgan Hochheiser [read post]
28 Aug 2018, 7:11 am by Jeffrey Karek
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that a mortgage field servicing company’s actions were too attenuated from its mortgage servicer client’s own debt collection efforts to be considered a debt collector under the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). [read post]
16 Jan 2017, 8:41 am by Coleman Braun
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently held that a mortgage servicer’s response to a borrower’s written request for information complied with requirements of the federal Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) and, to the extent any information was missing, the borrower suffered no actual damages as a result. [read post]