Someone comes to your house and hands you a lawsuit telling you that you have been sued in the District Court for Baltimore City for a debt. The person suing you has signed the bottom of the first page of the Complaint underneath an “Application and Affidavit in...
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Year: 2019
Putative Class Action Filed Against Credit Union
Last week, our firm filed a class action case against Money One Federal Credit Union and a law firm that files its collection lawsuits, Silverman Theologou, LLP. In the case, we claim that Money One, through another company, sent illegal repossession notices to its...
Thousands of Tenants Receive $102 Checks in Class Action Settlement
On September 6, the Class Administrator in Roberts et al. v. Harbor Group Management Co., et al. (Case No. 24-C-17-00509) mailed out the settlement checks to the tenant class members. The checks are in the amount of $102.58 and class members should be advised that the...
DarCars pays $66,000 in Settlement for $7,128 Transmission Job
In November 2015, our client, Gina Redman, experienced problems with her 2010 Jeep Wrangler and took it to DarCars, a large dealership group in Silver Spring, Maryland, for repair. DarCars installed a transmission and provided a warranty. When the transmission later...
Award to Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service
Santoni, Vocci & Ortega, LLC is proud to have represented a class of tenants in a case against a residential property management company relating to late fees and court costs. As part of the settlement of the case, unclaimed amounts from the settlement fund were...
Debt Collection Class Action Settlement Receives Final Approval from Court
The Baltimore City Circuit Court has approved the settlement of a class action case filed by Santoni, Vocci & Ortega, LLC against a law firm representing a Baltimore-based bail bond company, obtaining relief for over 100 Marylanders. The lawsuit alleged that the...
$96,000 JUDGMENT AGAINST LARGE BALTIMORE LANDLORD FOR ILLEGAL EVICTION & CIVIL THEFT
On March 5, 2019, the Honorable Shannon E. Avery of the Circuit Court for Baltimore City issued a ruling finalizing a $96,593.39 award against Ted Thornton, Maryland Property Management, LLC, and ANT Properties, LLC (“Defendants”). Late last year, a jury had found the...