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HP Faces Class Action Lawsuit Regarding Unpaid Overtime

A class action lawsuit has been filed following allegations that Hewlett-Packard Company, (HP) has been incorrectly categorizing some of its employees as “exempt” and failing to pay them for overtime hours in violation of federal employment law. HP’s technical support workers, who work in titles such as Technical Solutions Consultants, Technical Solutions Representatives, Technical Support Engineers, and Senior Technical Support […]

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Peter Holland on Debt Buyers and Robo-Signing

Peter A. Holland of Maryland has written The One Hundred Billion Dollar Problem in Small Claims Court: Robo-Signing and Lack of Proof in Debt Buyer Cases, 6 Journal of Business & Technology Law 101 (2011). Here’s the abstract: Recent years have seen the rise of a new industry which has clogged the dockets of small […]

Consumer Rights

Are you getting calls from 815-676-6428?

Our consumer protection law firm has been getting several complaints about repetitive calls from this company. We have a client who has informed them that they are calling the wrong number and she does not know the person they are looking for, but the calls continue. Both the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, (TCPA) and Fair […]

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Who called you from 757-961-3544?

We have heard many complaints from consumers stating that they are getting collection calls from this number regarding debts owed by people that they do not know. When a debt collector finds out that they have the wrong phone number, they are not supposed to continue to harass that innocent consumer, however that is not always […]

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Payday Loan Scams

In recent years, reports of consumers receiving harassing calls by scam artists pretending to be payday loan debt collectors attempting to collect on supposedly delinquent payday loans has been on the rise. These scam artists use various coercion techniques, including abusive language, threats of bodily harm or arrest in an attempt to bully victims in to sending them money. Unfortunately, many consumers have […]

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Getting Spam Text Messages From Target or Best Buy?

Don’t be fooled! Those text messages are from scammers pretending to be legitimate companies as part of a ruse to get your personal information. The text gives you a link that looks like Target or Best Buy websites, but they are not. NBC News recently covered our investigation and pending lawsuit against the company that is sending […]

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Robo-Dial TCPA Case Against Best Buy

On October 17, 2012, in the case Chesbro v. Best Buy Stores, L.P., the Court ruled that “robocalls” made by Best Buy to remind consumers to use their Best Buy “Reward Zone” points are telemarketing calls and are indeed subject to the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). Plaintiff Michael Chesbro bought a computer from Best Buy and claims he […]

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Robo-Dial Class Action Lawsuit Against Citibank

A class action lawsuit has been filed against Citibank, N.A. in following allegations that they violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) by contacting consumers on their cellular telephones via an automatic telephone dialing system or using prerecorded voices . (CV 12-05038) The lawsuit includes “All persons within the United States who received a non-emergency telephone call from Citibank […]

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Do Consumers Want a Do-Not-Mail List?

Chris Jay Hoofnagle and Jennifer M. Urban, both of Berkeley Law, and Su Li of Berkely’s Center for the Study of Law and Society, have written Privacy and Advertising Mail. Here’s the abstract: In this paper, we consider why Americans may frame the generation and receipt of unsolicited advertising mail as a privacy violation. We […]

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is cracking down on credit reporting and debt collection companies.

According to Richard Cordray, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s director, “Debt collectors and credit reporting agencies have gone unsupervised by the federal government for too long.” Debt collection has been among the top consumer complaints to the Federal Trade Commission in recent years. , Experian Information Solutions Inc., Equifax Inc. and TransUnion, have records on 200 million […]

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Is your car a lemon?

Almost every day we hear of another vehicle recall, but no one really cares unless your car is in the “recall list”. A recall is a request to return to the manufacturer an entire production run of a certain make and model of vehicle, usually due to the discovery of safety issues. When this happens, car owners are requested […]

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Robo-Dial Calls and Spam Texts Aren’t Just Annoying

They may be illegal, too! Several class action lawsuits have been brought by consumers who are being harassed by debt collectors representing companies that they have never done business with and do not owe any money to. Even if you do owe the debt, it is a violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, (TCPA) for those companies to contact you on your […]

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