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Pocket Service and Pre-Judgment Garnishment

March 8, 2010

Pocket service is lawyer slang for the procedural rule in Minnesota that a lawsuit commences on service of the summons and complaint. This is different from the rule in almost all other states and the federal courts, where a lawsuit begins with filing of the summons and complaint.
When coupled with Minnesota’s rules on pre-judgment garnishment, [...]

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Debt collectors filed more than 36,000 lawsuits in Minnesota in 2007

February 26, 2008

According to the Strib, debt collection lawsuits and default judgment filings are skyrocketing, and went up to more than 36,000 for 2007.
36,000!!! For crying out loud. That’s 3,000 per month! And those are just the lawsuits that actually get filed.
[via Consumer Rights Watch]
[photo: Star Tribune]

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Unifund averages nearly 5,500 collection lawsuits a year in California alone

November 28, 2007

Want to know just how many lawsuits are filed by the debt collection industry? Well, in a document I just received, Unifund admitted to filing 14,172 collection lawsuits in California between January 1, 2004 and July 31, 2006! That is over 450 lawsuits per month and nearly 5,500 per year!
Of the total, Unifund obtained almost [...]

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