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Belini v. Washington Mutual Bank

Contracts, Debt Collection, Property Law & Real Estate
The Truth in Lending Act permits a damages claim to be stated by the debtor under 15 U.S.C. section 1640 based on the creditor's alleged failure to...

Volvo Commercial Fin. v. Gasel Transp. Lines, Inc.

Bankruptcy Law, Debt Collection
The bankruptcy court did not err in determining that plaintiff is not entitled to allowance of an administrative expense claim as a result of the...

Lester E. Cox Med. Ctr. v. Huntsman

Debt Collection
In a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case, summary judgment in favor of defendant-debtor is affirmed where the district court did not err in...

Rose v. Educ. Credit Mgmt.

Bankruptcy Law, Debt Collection, Education Law
Bankruptcy court's discharge of debtor's student loan is reversed where the evidence showed that plaintiff had current income available to repay the...

Gen. Elec. Capital Corp. v. Union Planters Bank

Debt Collection, Injury & Tort Law
In a conversion claim, the district court did not err in concluding that debtor's payments made to defendant-bank were proceeds of plaintiff's...

Durkin v. Equifax Check Serv.

Civil Procedure, Consumer Protection Law, Debt Collection, Evidence
In a suit alleging violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, summary judgment in favor of defendant is affirmed where plaintiffs have...

IN RE: L'HEUREUX

Bankruptcy Law, Debt Collection, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A six-day delay in removing a notice of foreclosure sale, following the cancellation of the sale, is not a violation of the automatic stay provision...

QUANTUM CORP. FUNDING v. WESTWAY INDUS.

Construction, Debt Collection
State Finance Law section 137 allows subcontractors' assignees to recover payment from bond sureties.

LLP MORTGAGE v. BIZAR

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Debt Collection, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action for breach of a promissory note, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying defendant's motion for change of venue and...

IN RE: BLASZAK

Bankruptcy Law, Debt Collection
Defendant's debt is nondischargeable in his bankruptcy on the ground that he incurred the debt through "fraud or defalcation while acting in a...