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Sued By National Collegiate Student Loan Trust? Some Basic Information October 25, 2016
What connection does this "trust" have to my student loan? These trusts are not lenders or guarantors. National Collegiate Student Loan Trust is a trust, or series of trusts, that contain private ...
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Carefully Drafted Motions Provide Leverage when Disputing Wage Garnishments October 24, 2016
A client contacted us after she received a wage garnishment stemming from a judgment that had been obtained against her by LVNV Funding. The judgment was obtained in 2007 for about $6,000 and had rose ...
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Class Action brought against Forster & Garbus for citing creditor as "NCOP XI, LLC A/P/O Capital One." July 30, 2014
A federal judge green-lighted a class action lawsuit that accused Forster & Garbus, LLP and NCOP XI, LLC of acting deceptively by citing a creditor's name as "NCOP XI, LLC A/P/O Capital One." The Fair ...
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No FDCPA Violation Where Non-Attorney Representative Called Consumer On Behalf of Forster & Garbus July 17, 2013
In a recent case in the US DIstrict Court for the Eastern District in New York, the plaintiff brought a cause of action against Forster & Garbus, alleging that its practice of having a non-attorney ...
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Palisades Collection, LLC and Pressler & Pressler, LLP sued for filing successive, jurisdictionally defective lawsuits against consumer December 4, 2011
The front page of the New York Law Journal (Nov. 4, 2011) housed this torturous story about an Erie County woman who took it upon herself to hold accountable a debt buyer, Palisades Collection, LLC, ...
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Process server doesn't show up; case dismissed March 1, 2010
At my traverse hearing (to resolve the issue of jurisdiction) today, debt collection firm, Forster and Garbus, discontinued its lawsuit against my client. At a traverse hearing, the plaintiff's ...
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