SYKES v. MEL S. HARRIS AND ASSOCIATES LLC

Docket Nos. 13-2742-cv, 13-2747-cv, 13-2748-cv.

780 F.3d 70 (2015)

Monique SYKES, Rea Veerabadren, Kelvin Perez, Clifton Armoogam, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. MEL S. HARRIS AND ASSOCIATES LLC, Mel S. Harris, Todd Fabacher, Michael Young, Kerry Lutz, Esq., LR Credit 18, LLC, L-Credit, LLC, Leucadia National Corporation, LR Credit, LLC, LR Credit 10, LLC, Samserv, Inc., William Mlotok, Benjamin Lamb, David Waldman, Joseph A. Orlando, Michael Mosquera, John Andino, LR Credit 14, LLC, LR Credit 21, LLC, Philip M. Cannella, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: February 10, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul D. Clement , Bancroft PLLC, Washington, DC ( Candice Chiu , Bancroft PLLC, Washington, DC; James R. Asperger and Maria Ginzburg , Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, New York, NY; Marc A. Becker , London, UK; Brett A. Scher , Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck LLP, Woodbury, NY, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellants Mel S. Harris LLC, Mel S. Harris, Michael Young, David Waldman, Kerry Lutz, and Todd Fabacher.

Miguel A. Estrada , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, DC ( Scott P. Martin , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, DC; Michael Zimmerman , Zimmerman Jones Booher LLC, Salt Lake City, UT; Lewis H. Goldfarb and Adam R. Schwartz , McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpetner LLP, Morristown, NJ; Mark D. Harris , Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, NY, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellants Leucadia National Corporation, L-Credit, LLC, LR Credit, LLC, LR Credit 10, LLC, LR Credit 14, LLC, LR Credit 18, LLC, LR Credit 21, LLC, Joseph A. Orlando, and Philip M. Cannella.

Jack Babchik , Babchik & Young LLP, White Plains, NY, for Defendants-Appellants Samserv, Inc., William Mlotok, Benjamin Lamb, Michael Mosquera, and John Andino.

Matthew D. Brinckerhoff , Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP, New York, N.Y. ( Jonathan S. Abady , Debra L. Greenberger and Vasudha Talla , Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP, New York, NY; Josh Zinner , Susan Shin and Claudia Wilner , New Economy Project, New York, NY; Carolyn E. Coffey and Ariana Lindermayer , of counsel to Jeanette Zelhoff , MFY Legal Services, New York, NY; Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. , Harvard Law School, Boston, MA, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Jean Constantine-Davis , AARP Foundation Litigation, Washington, DC, on behalf of Amici Curiae AARP, National Association of Consumer Advocates, and National Consumer Law Center, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Danielle F. Tarantolo , New York Legal Assistance Group, New York, NY, on behalf of Amicus Curiae Consumer Advocates, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Sarang Vijay Damle , Senior Counsel, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Washington, DC ( Meredith Fuchs , General Counsel, To-Quyen Truong , Deputy General Counsel, David M. Gossett , Assistant General Counsel, Jessica Rank Divine , Attorney, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Washington, DC; Jonathan E. Nuechterlein , General Counsel, John F. Daly , Deputy General Counsel for Litigation, Theodore (Jack) Metzler , Attorney, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC, on the brief), on behalf of Amici Curiae The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Federal Trade Commission, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Judge JACOBS dissents in a separate opinion.


These consolidated appeals are taken from the September 4, 2012 class certification opinion, Sykes v. Mel Harris & Assocs., LLC, 285 F.R.D. 279 (S.D.N.Y.2012) ("Sykes II"), and March 28, 2013 class certification order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Denny Chin, ...

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