Month: July 2019

D. Maryland; 4/27/2017; Case No. TDC-14-1180 Ms. Alston filed a case against two credit bureaus for violations of 15 U.S.C. § 1681e and 1681i: failure to maintain procedures to assure maximum possible accuracy and failure to conduct a reinvestigation into dispute information, respectively. Unfortunately, this is one of many cases litigated by Ms. Alston involving the reporting of her Wells Fargo mortgage. In a prior case against Wells Fargo, the Court decided that Wells Fargo’s reporting of her account as delinquent was accurate. This is because the evidence established that Wells Fargo was entitled to collect payments from her during

Hrebal v. Nationstar Mortgage LLC Case No. 17-cv-1815; D. Minn., June 14, 2019 The U.S. District Court granted summary judgment for the Plaintiff on a motion for reconsideration on the ground that the mortgage company negligently violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act when it repeatedly failed to report the consumer’s account as “disputed” in responses to the at-issue ACDV’s. The Court determined that there are no material factual disputes for a jury to resolve with respect to liability: the FCRA imposes liability on “furnishers” of consumer credit information, like Mr. Cooper, who fails to report that loan delinquency is “disputed.”