SHETIWY v. MIDLAND CREDIT MANAGEMENT

No. 12 Civ. 7068(SAS).

15 F.Supp.3d 437 (2014)

Amal SHETIWY, Louis C. Yeostros, John Murphy, Plamen Pankoff, Spiros Argyros, Nicole Gagnon, Vielka Vargas, Rose Villaneuva, and others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. MIDLAND CREDIT MANAGEMENT, a/k/a Midland Funding LLC, Calvary SPV LLC, Cach, LLC, LVNV Funding, LLC, FIA Card Services, N.A., Portfolio Recovery Associates LLC, Associated Recovery Systems, Equable Assent Financial, LLC, Chase Bank, N.A., and Bank of America, N.A., Defendants.

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

Signed March 26, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillip Jaffe, Esq. , New York, NY, George Bassias, Esq. , Astoria, NY, for Plaintiffs.

Casey D. Laffey, Esq. , Brian S. Goldberg, Esq. , Reed Smith LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant Midland Credit Management, Inc.

Donald S. Maurice, Jr., Esq. , Rachel Marin, Esq. , Thomas R. Dominczyk, Esq. , Maurice & Needleman, PC, Flemington, NJ, for Defendants Calvary Portfolio Services, LLC and Equable Ascent Financial, LLC.

Jonathan J. Greystone, Esq. , Spector Gadon & Rosen, PC, Philadelphia, PA, for Defendant CACH, LLC.

Gillian I. Biron, Esq. , S. Elaine McChesney, Esq. , Jonathan M. Albano, Esq. , Bingham McCutchen LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants Bank of America, N.A. and FIA Card Services, N.A.

Concepcion A. Montoya, Esq. , Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant LVNV Funding, LLC.

Christopher W. Madel, Esq. , Jennifer M. Robbins, Esq. , Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP, Minneapolis, MN, Oren D. Langer, Esq. , Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC.

Andrew A. Ruffino, Esq. , Covington & Burling LLP, New York, NY, Robert D. Wick, Esq. , Laura Brookover, Esq. , Henry Liu, Esq. , Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC, for Defendant Chase Bank, N.A.

John E. Brigandi, Esq. , Salvo Law Firm, Fairfield, NJ, for Defendant Associated Recovery Systems.


OPINION AND ORDER

SHIRA A. SCHEINDLIN, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Plaintiffs are eight individuals who claim that defendants obtained tens of thousands of state court debt collection judgments against them using false affidavits, misleading evidence, and other improper litigation tactics. Defendants consist of two groups: creditors or their affiliates ("Creditor Defendants");1 and businesses that collect...

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