The Circuit Court of Cook County reported the following activities in the suit brought by Wells Fargo Bank against Kathleen Churchill on January 11: 'Contract Complaint Filed' and 'Summons Issued And Returnable'
The Circuit Court of Cook County reported the following activities in the suit brought by Wells Fargo Bank against Acharya Ayushi S on January 11: 'Contract Complaint Filed' and 'Summons Issued And Returnable'
The Circuit Court of Cook County reported the following activities in the suit brought by Wells Fargo Bank against Meredith Talley on December 17: 'Contract Complaint Filed', 'Summons Issued And Returnable' and 'Case Electronically Filed'
The Circuit Court of Cook County reported the following activities in the suit brought by Wells Fargo Bank against Juan Marrow on December 17: 'Contract Complaint Filed', 'Summons Issued And Returnable' and 'Case Electronically Filed'
The Circuit Court of Cook County reported the following activities in the suit brought by Wells Fargo Bank against Emily G. Cox on December 17: 'Contract Complaint Filed', 'Summons Issued And Returnable' and 'Case Electronically Filed'
The Circuit Court of Cook County reported the following activities in the suit brought by Commonwealth Ediso against Wells Fargo Bank on December 17: 'Replevin Complaint Filed' and 'Case Electronically Filed'
A tenant filed a class-action lawsuit against CL Southgate LLC, CL Southgate Annex LLC, Laramar Management Services LLC, Bridge WF IL Midpointe LLC and Bridge Property Management, citing alleged violation of the City of Chicago Residential Landlord and Tenant Ordinance (RLTO).
A Chicago federal judge has eliminated several claims from a suit brought by Cook County against banking giant HSBC, for alleged predatory lending, but the judge said the county still made enough plausible allegations, including that HSBC discriminated against minorities, for the suit to survive.
A federal judge has refused to dismiss a class action alleging telemarketers illegally recorded phone conversations among its banking clients’ business customers.
A federal judge in Illinois has ruled that Bank of America and other banks were not in violation of consumer privacy acts and dismissed a class-action suit accusing the bank of improperly distributing the confidential information of homeowners who had borrowed mortgage loans.
A Chicago federal judge has declined to let Wells Fargo off the hook of a junk fax class action lawsuit against the bank and one of its member services credit card processer, saying, even if Wells Fargo had no knowledge of the credit payment company’s decision to send a fax bearing its name, the bank’s name on the fax and business connection to its partner means it could share liability for the unauthorized fax.
More than 25 years after its passage, a federal telemarketing law hasn’t just created a cottage industry for lawyers – it has spawned a group of professional plaintiffs like Stoops who are armed with several cell phones for the purpose of receiving debt collection calls often intended for other individuals.
A Salt Lake City-based telemarketing business which uses a Naperville call center to solicit retailers and other merchants to persuade them to hire certain banks to process their debit and credit transactions has been hit with a class action lawsuit from small business owners who allege they and a company whose marketing operations they purchased last year, “surreptitiously recorded” phone conversations in which the business owners divulged financials and other “sensitive” information.
The state of Illinois has joined the public retribution against Wells Fargo as the bank deals with the aftermath of its admission that employees opened accounts without customers’ authorization, and that could send a warning to other financial institutions, as it potentially harms the bank's future business prospects.
Cook County’s lawsuits against three of the country’s biggest banks over claims of predatory discriminatory lending targeted at minorities have been put on hold as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to weigh in on an appeal brought by two of the banks, challenging the ability of local municipal governments, like Cook County, to sue under federal law.
Nine lawyers – including one convicted of sexually assaulting a young woman in her hotel room, and a former downstate prosecutor who allegedly tampered with official state’s attorneys computer files after learning he wouldn’t be promoted to the top prosecutor job in his county – have been disbarred by the Illinois Supreme Court. The state’s high court also suspended an additional dozen other attorneys for a range of alleged violations.
