SYKES v. MEL HARRIS AND ASSOCIATES, LLC

No. 09 Civ. 8486 (DC).

757 F.Supp.2d 413 (2010)

Monique SYKES et al., Plaintiffs, v. MEL HARRIS AND ASSOCIATES, LLC, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

December 29, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emery Celli Brinkerhoff & Abady LLP, by: Matthew D. Brinckerhoff, Esq. , Eisha Jain, Esq. , Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project, by: Susan Shin, Esq. , Claudia Wilner, Esq. , Josh Zinner, Esq. , MFY Legal Services, Inc., by: Carolyn E. Coffey, Esq. , Andrew Goldberg, Esq. , Anamaria Segura, Esq. , New York, NY, for Plaintiffs.

Wilson, Elser, Moskovsdtz, Edelman & Dicker LLP, by: Brett A. Scher, Esq. , New York, NY, for Mel Harris, Defendants.

McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP, by: Adam R. Schwartz, Esq. , New York, NY, for Leucadia, Defendants.

Babchick & Young, LLP, by: Jordan Sklar, Esq. , White Plains, NY, for Samserv, Defendants.


OPINION

CHIN, Circuit Judge.

In this case, eight plaintiffs allege that a debt-buying company, a law firm, a process service company, and others engaged in a "massive scheme" to fraudulently obtain default judgments against them and more than 100,000 other consumers in state court. Plaintiffs allege that defendants did so by engaging in "sewer service"—the practice of failing to serve a summons and complaint and then filing a fraudulent affidavit...

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