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25-6272 James Taylor v. Freedom Mortgage Corporation, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-03 Denied IFP consumer-protection debt-collection fdcpa legal-standing nonjudicial-foreclosure statutory-interpretation I. Under 15 U.S.C. § 1692, is Freedom Mortgage Corporation a "Debt Collector" under the FDCPA's Primary Definition, when attempting to collect debt? …
25A587 Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Third Circuit 2025-11-18 Application certiorari consumer-protection extension pharmaceutical regulatory time-limit Question not identified.
25-257 Wells Pharma of Houston, L.L.C. v. Zyla Life Sciences, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2025-09-04 Pending CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) consumer-protection drug-marketing fdca-preemption outsourcing-facilities premarket-approval state-law-claims Whether the FDCA preempts private state-law unfair competition and consumer protection claims premised on the marketing of compounded drugs without pr…
24-1230 Coinbase, Inc., et al. v. Darren Kramer, et al. California 2025-06-03 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived arbitration-agreement consumer-protection federal-arbitration-act preemption public-injunctive-relief state-law Whether, or to what extent, the FAA preempts a state-law rule allowing a plaintiff to evade arbitration by pleading a request for "public injunctive r…
24-7067 Manuel Tijerino v. Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund Fifth Circuit 2025-04-23 Denied IFP consumer-protection due-process employer-misconduct equal-protection fmla-retaliation legal-presumption Did the lower courts err in misapplying the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) waiver of standards denying Petitioners FMLA, due to a concealed missrepre…
24A745 American Airlines Group Inc. v. United States, et al. First Circuit 2025-01-29 Presumed Complete airline-regulation consumer-protection federal-preemption interstate-commerce marketing-claims pricing-practices Question not identified.
24A728 Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., et al. v. Skot Heckman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-24 Presumed Complete antitrust class-action consumer-protection due-process settlement ticket-sales Question not identified.
24A696 Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited, et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-15 Presumed Complete administrative-agency appropriations-clause consumer-protection dodd-frank funding-structure separation-of-powers Question not identified.
24A671 Premier Nutrition Corporation, fka Joint Juice, Inc. v. Mary Beth Montera, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2025-01-10 Presumed Complete certification class-action consumer-protection federal-procedure judicial-federalism state-law Question not identified.
24-6255 Taiming Zhang v. Apple, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-violations consumer-protection due-process product-liability racial-discrimination i) The defendant has been, since September 2017, committing fraud and assault against jail its custom ers (billions of consumers) maliciously shipping…
24-5682 Lan Thi Tran Nguyen v. Kathryn Luebcke, et al. California 2024-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights consumer-protection discrimination judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation real-property Petitioner, Lan Nguyen, has the following federal questions of law: 1) Whether the real property purchaser's basic consumer protection and compensati…
24-262 Stacy Makhnevich v. Gregory S. Bougopoulos, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-09 Dismissed consumer-protection debt-collection fdcpa-violation legal-standing misrepresentation unfair-practices Whether a debt collector misrepresentations to consumers that an entity (such as an Unincorporated Association) on behalf of which the debt collection…
24-254 Gordon Wood v. Winnebago Industries, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied Response Waived consumer-protection consumer-rights statutory-interpretation warranty-act warranty-obligations warranty-representative 1. Does a warrantor remain liable for its warranty obligations when it designates a representative pursuant to 15 U.S.C. § 2307 to fulfill those oblig…
24A191 QYK Brands LLC, dba Glowyy v. Federal Trade Commission Ninth Circuit 2024-08-21 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-discretion chevron-deference consumer-protection due-process ftc-injunction Question not identified.
24A143 Stacy Makhnevich v. Novick Edelstein Pomerantz, P.C., et al. Second Circuit 2024-08-07 Presumed Complete consumer-protection debt-collection false-representation fdcpa materiality statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
23A1102 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. Charles Ramsey California 2024-06-11 Presumed Complete arbitration-agreement consumer-protection federal-arbitration-act mcgill-rule ninth-circuit public-injunctive-relief Question not identified.
23A1081 Joshua A. Lapin v. EverQuote, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-06-04 Presumed Complete article-iii-standing concrete-harm consumer-protection digital-nomad federal-jurisdiction statutory-damages Whether an uninjured plaintiff who receives junk calls/texts/e-mail/voicemail, or similar consumer protection infraction, who seeks only statutory dam…
23A1030 Ralph L. Hayes v. Fay Servicing, LLC Fourth Circuit 2024-05-20 Presumed Complete administrative-delay cfpb-investigation consumer-protection due-process mortgage-loans writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-6928 Saria Walker v. Scientific Alloys Corp., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights consumer-protection dental-amalgam due-process environment government-liability health medical-safety mercury-toxicity product-safety 1.) Is there other safer Alternatives now Available other than Dental Amalgam? 2.)ls Mercury a product you would want in your mouth as a citizen ? 3…
23-800 Niki-Alexander Shetty, et al. v. Thomas Block, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied civil-procedure consumer-protection contract-law federal-courts rescission statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations statutory-construction tila-rescission truth-in-lending-act The Truth-in-Lending Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1635 (or "TILA"), requires that a borrower tell a lender within three years of her intent to rescind the loan. J…
23-710 Brigitte Nelson v. Acre Mortgage & Financial Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure consumer-protection dodd-frank-act federal-regulation judicial-review mortgage-disclosure regulatory-compliance respa tila tila-respa 1. Whether the Third Circuit's Judgment entered on October 16, 2023 incorrectly affirmed the Jury Verdict and the District Court Judgment entered on A…
23-637 Jingjing Zheng, et vir v. Shady Grove Fertility Maryland 2023-12-13 Denied civil-rights consumer-protection court-deception due-process fertility-fraud fertility-treatments intentional-misrepresentation maryland-law medical-fraud medical-malpractice pro-se-litigation standing Will granting this petition decrease a large amount of loss in IVF treatments in the United States each year to safeguard the significant interests of…
23-511 Terrence R. Bell v. Sun West Mortgage Company, Inc. Texas 2023-11-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation consumer-protection due-process equal-protection federal-trade-commission property-rights standing 1. Whether the Fourteenth Court of Appeals, erred in its interpretation and application of Amendment XIV, Section 1 of the United States Constitutio…
23-5963 John Roberts v. Jason Hollar, Chief Executive Officer of Cardinal Health, et al. Ohio 2023-11-06 Denied IFP bodily-integrity chips civil-rights consumer-protection due-process illegal-search illegal-seizure legal-claim manufacturing-defect privacy product-liability flJu ques-hion honorable Judge. Ms-does'? Cardinal Hearth , a-1 locro Cardina ) Pt, Out lm, Oh H30 11 blH-75 7-5ooo JQ they order ir\cxnufac.'t(jr e…
23-5870 George Tolbert v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, dba Mr. Cooper Seventh Circuit 2023-10-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation consumer-protection discovery due-process federal-regulation foreclosure mortgage-foreclosure property-rights sanctions 1 NATIONSTAR d/b/a MISTER COOPER FAIL TO MAKE DISCLOSURE AND COOPERATE IN DISCOVERY, UNDER RULE 37 AND SANCTIONS 2.NATIONSTAR dba MR. COOPER VIOLATE…
23-418 Concerned Household Electricity Consumers Council, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency District of Columbia 2023-10-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-action consumer-group consumer-prices consumer-protection federal-agency-action injury-in-fact price-impact standing Can the "injury in fact" element of standing, as to a consumer group challenging a federal agency action, be established by an evidentiary showing tha…
23-5824 Alex Adams v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection due-process standing Question not identified.
23-289 Marshall B. Lloyd, et al. v. Ford Motor Company Sixth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response Waived consumer-protection deceptive-advertising energy-policy-and-conservation-act epa-regulations epca-regulations fuel-economy implied-preemption preemption state-enforcement Section 32919(b) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) expressly permits a State "to adopt or enforce a law or regulation on disclosure of …
23-29 CLA Estate Services, Inc., et al. v. Washington Washington 2023-07-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights commercial-speech consumer-protection due-process fair-notice first-amendment free-speech state-action state-regulation vagueness 1. Whether a company has fair notice under the Due Process Clause that it is barred from engaging in certain speech under a state consumer protection …
22-1181 Evenflo Company, Inc. v. Mike Xavier, et al. First Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-rights class-action concrete-harm consumer-protection due-process economic-injury judicial-inference pleading-standard standing Whether a plaintiff alleging economic injury must plead facts to support his theory of harm, as several circuits require, or whether a court may suppl…
22-7193 Rafael Trevino v. U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee Connecticut 2023-04-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights consumer-protection due-process fair-lending fraud judicial-review mortgage-lending mortgage-underwriting payment-accounting predatory-lending standing Predatory mortgage lending it's an Important Federal Question and fact that has impacted the lives of honest American Families. Is Predatory lending a…
22-7060 Zachary James McAlexander v. D.G. Yuengling & Son, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection corporate-liability due-process false-advertising first-amendment seventh-amendment standing 1. Why is the right to petition the government for grievances not being honored in this case, along with others, in accordance with the First Amendmen…
22-804 Lennar Carolinas, LLC v. Patricia Damico, et al. South Carolina 2023-02-24 Denied Response Waived anti-discrimination arbitration-agreement consumer-contracts consumer-protection contract-law equal-treatment equal-treatment-rule federal-arbitration-act homebuying state-law state-law-presumption Whether the Federal Arbitration Act prohibits courts from applying a state-law presumption expressly disfavoring enforcement of arbitration provisions…
22-663 Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited, et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) administrative-law appropriations-clause cfpb-regulation consumer-financial-protection consumer-protection due-process financial-regulation removal-power separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the Rule should be vacated because it was promulgated by Director Cordray while shielded from removal by President Trump under a statutory …
22-6559 Yan Minkovitch v. Ticor Title Company of California, et al. California 2023-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights community-property consumer-protection due-process family-law legal-standing marital-rights real-estate real-estate-transaction standing title-insurance Despite the fact that there are approximately 100 title insurers in the United States, the majority of the title insurance market in the country is co…
22-583 Evan Greebel v. United States Second Circuit 2022-12-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-rights compensatory-payments consumer-credit-protection-act consumer-protection due-process earnings-definition garnishment garnishment-limitations mandatory-victims-restitution-act statutory-interpretation Whether lump-sum compensatory payments to an individual, such as those made pursuant to a retirement plan, qualify as "earnings" subject to the CCPA's…
22-529 Alex Cantero, et al., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Bank of America, N.A. Second Circuit 2022-12-08 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) banking-regulation consumer-protection escrow-accounts interest-rates mortgage-lending national-bank-act preemption state-law state-law-preemption Does the National Bank Act preempt the application of state escrow-interest laws to national banks?
22-489 Kevin Charles Bertram v. U.S. Bank N.A., as Trustee Florida 2022-11-22 Denied consumer-protection creditor-notification lending-transaction notice-requirement rescission rescission-right right-to-rescind security-interest statute-of-limitations truth-in-lending-act The Truth in Lending Act provides that a borrower "shall have the right to rescind the transaction until midnight of the third business day following.…
22-447 Johnson & Johnson, et al. v. California California 2022-11-15 Denied Amici (4) civil-penalties civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection due-process fair-notice false-advertising free-speech speech-chilling statutory-interpretation unfair-competition-law 1. Whether a robust fair notice standard applies to California's Unfair Competition Law, Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17200 et seq., and False Advertising…
22-5044 Richard Anthony Siler v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights consumer-protection data-protection direct-appeal due-process frivolous-claims habeas-corpus judicial-procedure privacy standing writ-of-certiorari 1. Is it legal for a legitimate leads company to sell personal identities under any circumstance? 2. Are juries entitled to factual answers once aski…
21-1604 Robin G. Thornton, et al. v. Tyson Foods, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response Waived agency-guidance consumer-protection federal-meat-inspection-act federalism food-labeling labeling-regulations meat-inspection-act preemption Can the beef packing industry and United States of Agriculture override the clearly stated Congressional purpose of enacting the Federal Meat Inspecti…
21-1435 Martin H. Leaf v. Nike, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-05-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights consumer-protection deceptive-conduct deceptive-practices free-speech internet-content pleading-standards standing state-of-mind subliminal-advertising Plaintiff alleged that the public – over four billion including Petitioner Martin Leaf -were exposed to a deceptive subliminal and subtle five -minute…
21-1031 Estate of Cheryl Beaudry v. Telecheck Services, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing check-reporting class-action consumer-protection consumer-reports fair-credit-reporting-act injury-in-fact positive-checkwriting-information putative-class-action risk-of-check-declines In this putative class action involving over 1.4 million consumers, when presenting checks to merchants for payment, did named plaintiff Cheryl Beaudr…
21-1002 Arthur Lopez v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied banking-regulations civil-rights consumer-protection due-process federal-liability financial-regulation mortgage mortgage-disclosure truth-in-lending Should International Banking Conglomerate, HSBC Bank USA, NA, Defendant, and Director James Brien Comey Jr, Defendant and Former F.B.I. Director, be a…
21-684 Beverly Zylstra, et vir v. DRV, LLC Seventh Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied Response Waived breach-of-warranty circuit-split consumer-protection cure-opportunity federal-law judicial-uniformity jury-trial magnuson-moss-warranty-act repair-attempts warranty-claims The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act creates a private right of action for any "consumer who is damaged by the failure of a supplier, warrantor, or service …
21-318 Mark Leyse v. Bank of America, National Association Third Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing congress-lawmaking-authority congressional-intent consumer-protection intangible-harms spokeo-v-robins statutory-harm telemarketing-regulation telephone-consumer-protection-act unsolicited-telemarketing The text of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, 47 U.S.C. § 227 ("TCPA"), demonstrates Congress's determination that certain types of unsolicited t…
21-124 Emmanuel Torres v. Bay Area Credit Services, et al. Second Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied civil-rights consumer-protection debt-collection due-process fair-debt-collection federal-jurisdiction federal-statute new-york-business-law private-right-of-action statutory-interpretation Does a consumer have a private right of action under New York General Business Law Section 349 for a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Violation.
21-5137 Samantha Delane Rajapakse v. Credit Acceptance Corporation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights comprehensive-consumer-credit-reporting-act consumer-protection credit-reporting due-process fair-billing-act fair-credit-reporting fair-credit-reporting-act fourth-amendment magnuson-moss-act repossession sixth-circuit-jurisdiction Does the Sixth Circuit have the authority and jurisdiction to astray from the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court to affirm the District Court judg…
21-5040 Joseph A. Cunningham, Jr. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Third Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied IFP banking civil-rights consumer-protection contract-law due-process mortgage Question not identified.
20-1801 Darrel Mendez v. NRZ REO X LLC Arizona 2021-06-25 Denied civil-procedure consumer-protection deed-of-trust due-process foreclosure property-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-waiver takings trustee-sale Does the Arizona Deed of Trust Scheme provide good cause for removal of one or more of its provisions under severability?
20-1597 Kathryn MacEwen Conti v. Arrowood Indemnity Company Sixth Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge commercial-lending consumer-protection contract-law debt-classification non-dischargeable-debt promissory-notes student-loans May commercial lenders create non-dischargeable debts by placing language in the promissory notes that identifies the loan as a "student loan," "educa…
20-1570 HRB Tax Group, Inc., et al. v. Derek Snarr Ninth Circuit 2021-05-12 Dismissed Amici (1)Relisted (2) arbitration-agreement california-law class-action class-action-waiver consumer-protection federal-arbitration-act preemption public-injunction public-injunctive-relief This Court has repeatedly held that the Federal Arbitration Act "protect[s]" agreements "to use individualized rather than class or collective action …
20-1549 Jeffrey B. Broadhurst v. Citimortgage, Inc. Third Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure consumer-protection contract deposition-testimony due-process loan-modification standing summary-judgment third-circuit UTPCPL Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Affirming the District Court's Order Granting Respondent's Motion for Summary Judgment by finding …
20-658 Sherri Cohen v. Equifax Information Services, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied consumer-disputes consumer-protection credit-disputes credit-file-accuracy credit-repair credit-reporting credit-reporting-agencies fair-credit-reporting-act pro-se-litigation reasonable-investigation Question 1. Whether CRAs like TransUnion and Equifax can satisfy the requirement of §1681i(a) of the FCRA that they "conduct a reasonable investigat…
20-376 DNF Associates, LLC v. Jillian McAdory Ninth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure consumer-protection debt-buyer debt-collection debt-collector fair-debt-collection-practices-act henson-v-santander legal-standing passive-debt-buyer statutory-interpretation Whether a passive debt buyer—an entity that purchases defaulted debts for its own account, refers the debts to third parties that perform collection, …
20-5755 Joseph Lee Jones v. Google LLC Tenth Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights consumer-protection due-process first-amendment free-speech human-rights in-forma-pauperis legal-remedies three-strikes Question not identified.
20-339 Jason Winer v. Coralys Negron, et al. Second Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure consumer-protection creditor-definition creditor-status de-facto-dealer district-court-jurisdiction state-law-claims Supplemental-jurisdiction unfair-trade-practices 1. Did the District Court err in exercising supplemental jurisdiction over the Plaintiffs state law claims when the Defendant-Jason Winer was not a cr…
20-166 Michael Scott Anglesey, et al. v. Allied Professionals Insurance Company, A Risk Retention Group, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Amici (2) arbitration-clause arbitration-clauses consumer-protection federal-preemption insurance-contract liability-risk-retention-act mccarran-ferguson-act risk-retention-group state-insurance-regulation state-law 1. As to a risk retention group (RRG), does the federal Liability Risk Retention Act of 1986 (LRRA), 15 U.S.C. §3901 et seq., preempt authority of the…
19-1171 Reed Kirk McDonald v. Citibank, N.A., et al. Colorado 2020-03-26 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection court-procedure due-process due-process,civil-procedure,tila,respa,dodd-frank, foreclosure jurisdictional-challenge respa-violation standing tila-claim writ-of-ejection (1) Whether Mr. McDonald held any cognizable claim under TILA, RESPA, TRA, and Dodd-Frank against Citibank. (2) Whether lack of service to McDonald f…
19-1078 AT&T Mobility LLC, et al. v. Steven McArdle Ninth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied arbitration arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements california-law civil-procedure class-wide-injunction consumer-protection federal-arbitration-act preemption public-injunction public-injunctive-relief California law authorizes plaintiffs asserting a claim under the State's consumer-protection laws to seek "public injunctive relief'—which it defines …
19-988 Living Essentials, LLC, et al. v. Washington Washington 2020-02-06 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) central-hudson commercial-speech consumer-protection false-advertising federal-trade-commission first-amendment free-speech prior-substantiation substantiation-doctrine washington-state-law Whether the prior substantiation doctrine violates the First Amendment.
19-914 Credit Bureau Center, LLC, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission Seventh Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Relisted (5) administrative-law consumer-protection consumer-redress enforcement-scheme federal-trade-commission ftc ftc-authority injunctive-relief permanent-injunction section-13(b) section-19 statutory-interpretation Whether Section 13(b)'s second proviso providing that the FTC "may seek" a permanent injunction is an independent grant of authority to "file suit" se…
19-763 Richard C. Angino, et ux. v. TransUnion LLC Third Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied accuracy accuracy-of-reports attorneys-fees circuit-split consumer-protection consumer-rights credit-reporting credit-reporting-accuracy credit-reports credit-scores due-process fair-credit-reporting-act standing 1. WHETHER THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD ACCEPT AND DECIDE THIS CASE THAT AFFECTS HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF INDIVIDUALS, VIRTUALLY EVERYONE WHO APPLIES FOR C…
19-512 Anthony Robinson v. Department of Education Fourth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Relisted (3) civil-procedure civil-suit consumer-protection fair-credit-reporting-act federal-agency federal-government-liability sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation statutory-liability Whether the Fair Credit Reporting Act authorizes consumers to file civil suits against federal governmental agencies under 15 U.S.C. § 1681n and §1681…
19-6172 Samantha Delane Rajapakse v. Credit Acceptance Corporation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied IFP auto-lenders auto-lending consumer-protection consumer-protection-laws credit-reporting fair-credit-reporting fourth-amendment fraud payment-histories payment-history repossession wrongful-repossession wrongful-seizure Does the courts have jurisdiction to give auto lenders immunity from the Consumer Protection Laws enacted by congress when evidence in the court recor…
19-439 CTIA - The Wireless Association v. City of Berkeley, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Amici (6) commercial-speech compelled-disclosure compelled-speech consumer-protection disclosure-requirements first-amendment government-regulation intermediate-scrutiny zauderer zauderer-standard In Zauderer v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel of Supreme Court of Ohio, 471 U.S. 626 (1985), this Court held that, although government regulation of c…
19-100 Crown Asset Management LLC v. Mary Barbato Third Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split consumer-protection debt-buyer debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act legal-standing passive-debt-buyer standing statutory-interpretation Whether a passive debt buyer—an entity that purchases defaulted debts for its own account, refers the debts to third parties who perform collection, a…
18-1567 Alexander A. Benzemann v. Houslanger & Associates, PLLC, et al. Second Circuit 2019-06-24 Denied circuit-split civil-litigation civil-procedure consumer-protection discovery-rule fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-procedure standing statute-of-limitations I. Whether the "discovery rule" applies to toll the one (1) year statute of limitations under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 169…
18-1288 Jean Coulter v. ADT Security Services, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied choice-of-law civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection contract contract-interpretation contract-renewal contractual-limitations contractual-period due-process fraud fraud-in-inducement implied-contract public-safety statute-of-limitations Did "Fraud in Inducement" occur, and is it applicable for Renewals or later Implied Contracts (until the Fraud is discovered)? a. Can a Written Contr…
18-8517 Roderick Jermaine Hall v. Sprint Corporation Fourth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied IFP antitrust civil-rights consumer-protection contract-disclosure contract-law disability-rights disclosure-requirements due-process false-advertising federal-regulations network-management service-limitations telecommunications telecommunications-law COURT HAS Jurisdiction 28 USC 1331: FEDERAL QUESTION Sprint fail to disclose information on any documents or website that has Sprint logo or Public No…
18-8413 Francisco K. Avoki v. Carolinas Telco Federal Credit Union, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection creditor-notification due-process rescission rescission-right standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation three-year-period tila truth-in-lending-act truth-in-lending-act-tila Does a borrower exercise his right to rescind a transaction in satisfaction of the requirement of Section 1635 by" [N]oti±ring the creditor" in writin…
18-1012 Patrick Lafferty, et ux. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. California 2019-02-04 Denied attorney-fees california-consumers-legal-remedies-act consumer-legal-remedies-act consumer-protection consumer-protection-act federal-trade-commission holder-rule implied-cause-of-action preemption private-cause-of-action private-right-of-action unfair-or-deceptive-acts 1. Whether the "Holder Rule" as discerned by the California Third District Court of Appeal implies a new private cause of action? 2. Whether the "Hol…
18-7738 Kukia R. Farrish v. Navy Federal Credit Union Fourth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights consumer-financial-protection-bureau consumer-protection credit-card-agreement credit-report credit-reporting damages debt-collection digital-forensics document-manipulation due-process electronic-evidence evidentiary-standards federal-credit-union financial-regulation judicial-review procedural-integrity The Cone Financal Protectin BueaCFPBad recenty fined Navy Federal Crodit Union for28M, for unlawful collections practicées which is what my claim is a…
18-991 Levi Huebner v. Midland Credit Management, et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response Waived circuit-split consumer-protection consumer-rights fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act least-sophisticated-consumer oral-dispute statutory-interpretation written-dispute 1. Under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1692e(8), 1692g(a)(3), is a debt collector required to treat a consumer's oral dispute w…
18-7638 John Todd Williams v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-violation civil-violations consumer-protection criminal-prosecution debt-collection deceptive-tactics fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act fdcpa federal-law misrepresentations Whether the courts below erroneously held that Mr. Williams and his companies could be prosecuted criminally, for acts his employees committed that ha…
18-7508 Patrick Brooks v. Pinnacle Financial Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights consumer-protection due-process foreclosure home-rescission jesinoski-v-countrywide-home-loans res-judicata rescission supreme-court-precedent truth-in-lending-act Whether, where the right to foreclose is extinguished as a matter of law by federal statute and as clarified in a unanimous Supreme Court decision, an…
18-7241 Mary-Ann Bernadette Kerrigan v. QBE Insurance Corporation Ninth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bad-faith-investigation breach-of-contract civil-rights consumer-protection criminal-activity criminal-damages criminal-law due-process insurance insurance-coverage insurance-investigation insurance-regulations procedural-error property-damage property-rights statute-of-limitations Can this court determine it is "extremely unusual and extraordinary circumstances" for QBE insurance and their adjusters to deny coverage by attributi…
18-778 St. Louis Heart Center, Inc. v. Nomax, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-rights consumer-protection due-process opt-out-notice spokeo-injury standing statutory-damages tcpa-disclosure telephone-consumer-protection-act Following this Court's decision in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins, 136 S. Ct. 1540 (2016), three circuit courts of appeals have held that a failure to disclos…
18-729 Maxwell & Morgan, P.C., et al. v. Martha A. McNair Ninth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Relisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure consumer consumer-protection debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act fdcpa foreclosure judicial-foreclosure security-interest statutory-interpretation Whether the FDCPA applies to foreclosure activity that does not seek payment of money from a consumer.
18-546 Brian E. Frosh, Attorney General of Maryland, et al. v. Association for Accessible Medicines Fourth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) commerce-clause consumer-protection dormant-commerce-clause drug-pricing extraterritoriality federalism generic-drugs prescription-drugs price-control price-gouging state-police-powers state-regulation Does the Commerce Clause prohibit a state from protecting consumer access to essential off-patent and generic prescription drugs by requiring manufact…
18-6259 Lou Tyler v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias big-business cfpb-enforcement civil-rights consumer-protection due-process fair-credit-reporting fair-debt-collection foreclosure judicial-bias mortgage-foreclosure pro-se pro-se-litigation standing statute-of-limitations 1. Federal question exists: Why did lower courts, U .S. District Courts and 51h circuit court of appeals refuse to even hear Plaintiff, pro se's case.…
18-6254 Lou Tyler v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias bias-in-courts big-business civil-rights consumer-protection due-process fair-credit-reporting-act fair-debt-collection-protection-agency federal-jurisdiction foreclosure mortgage-foreclosure pro-se pro-se-litigation standing statute-of-limitations 1. Federal question exists: Why did lower courts, U.S. District Courts and 5th circuit court of appeals refuse to even hear Plaintiff, pro se's case. …
18-425 Alvin E. Williams, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2018-10-03 Denied Response Waived appeal civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection consumer-warranty-act court-of-appeals due-process fraud fraud-upon-court judgment rico rico-violation song-beverly-consumer-warranty-act superior-court Did the Court of Appeals Second Appellate District Affirm the Judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles Mark V. Mooney Judge in favor of Petitione…
18-328 Kevin C. Rotkiske v. Paul Klemm, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-13 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Response RequestedRelisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure consumer-protection discovery-rule fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations Whether the "discovery rule" applies to toll the one (1) year statute of limitations under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1692, …
18-304 Kimberly-Clark Corporation, et al. v. Jennifer Davidson Ninth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied article-iii-standing consumer-protection consumer-standing deception declaratory-judgment false-advertising future-harm injunctive-relief product-misrepresentation standing Whether a consumer, who after using a product and determining that a representation concerning that product is allegedly misleading, can plausibly all…
18-244 Charles E. Woide, et ux. v. Federal National Mortgage Association Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-code-interpretation bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split consumer-protection consumer-rights consummation contractual-obligation creditor-defenses creditor-rights declaratory-relief notice-of-rescission regulation-z rescission rescission-notice statutory-interpretation truth-in-lending-act This Court often has emphasized the importance of statutory interpretation. But a significant split has developed among the Circuits as to whether and…
18-223 In Re Christopher Dawson 2018-08-21 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights consumer-protection due-process financial-misconduct foreclosure standing Whether Christopher Dawson, a disable and indigent senior citizen of United States, has been denied his due process rights, guaranteed under the Fifth…
18-86 The Sherwin-Williams Company v. California California 2018-07-18 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) causation civil-rights consumer-protection due-process first-amendment free-speech product-promotion public-nuisance retroactive-liability 1. In conflict with decisions of this Court and the Third Circuit, does the First Amendment permit Cal-ifornia to impose tort liability for truthfully…