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Attorney fee provisions about to be eviscerated

March 10, 2009

I met with Paul Thissen last Sunday, and he assured me that after doing further research into the bill he sponsored, he changed his mind and withdrew the bill. It is dead.
Minnesota DFL’ers are inexplicably out to eviscerate Minnesota consumer protection laws. Representative Paul Thissen (DFL), Representative Dave Olin (DFL), and Senator Linda Scheid (DFL) [...]

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Debt collector Merchants Retail Credit Association to pay $854,389.81 for FDCPA violations

November 20, 2007

Dolores Maddux owed a credit card debt to CitiFinancial. CitiFinancial sold the debt, and Merchants Retail Credit Association (MRCA) eventually bought it.
MRCA tried to collect the debt from Gilbert Maddux, Dolores Maddux’s spouse, and Jeni Maddux, her daughter. MRCA treated the Madduxes like dirt.
MRCA demanded $10,000 from Dolores Maddux when they finally called her after [...]

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Debt collector Marshall and Ziolkowski to pay $92,903 for debt collection violations

November 20, 2007

Three consumers were awarded a total of $87,000 for Marshall and Ziolkowski’s conduct in New Mexico, plus $5,903 in attorney fees and costs. The New Mexico U.S. District Court found that Marshall and Ziolkowski abused the plaintiffs by:

calling Stephanie McMichael and telling her that her “mom might have to go to jail”;
calling Bill McMichael derogatory [...]

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Minnesota Supreme Court expands damages available for negligent infliction of emotional distress

December 27, 2005

Link to case: Engler v. Ill. Farmers Ins. Co.
The plaintiff, Engler, was the mother of a child who was struck by a passing motorist who lost control of her vehicle. His mother was standing nearby. Weeks after the incident, she sought medical treatment for various symptoms. “She was irritable, did not want to get out [...]

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