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(CN) – A debt-collection law firm must pay a disabled former janitor $311,000 in damages because it pursued $3,000 credit card debt long after the statute of limitations had expired, the 9th Circuit affirmed Friday. A Montana federal jury ordered Johnson, Rodenburg & Lauinger to pay Tim McCollough after the firm [...] Many debt buyers do not have the evidence to prove their claims in court if they are challenged. Consumers are frequently being sued for inflated amounts or for debts they do not owe and should consider hiring a lawyer to defend themselves from unscrupulous collectors. This recent article in the New York Times about the [...] Worried about Debt Lawsuits? Act Quickly and File an Answer if you are Sued! As a general rule the law will NOT protect people that “sleep” on their rights. If you do not fight a lawsuit promptly – as soon as you do find out about it- you may end [...] Here is a very interesting video on You Tube about a man that purchased a car that had, at some point, been completely submerged under water. Something of a sales arbitration horror story.
There are lessons to be learned from this event. Do NOT take delivery of a car you are buying [...] Unfortunately, it seems that there is an inordinate number of unscrupulous people engaged in the car sales business. We’ve all heard the jokes about the ‘used car salesman’. A comparison was made a few years ago that the difference between a used car salesman and a computer salesman is that the used car [...] |
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