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Offering high-quality, cost-effective representation to consumers throughout Maryland
Last week, our firm filed suit against the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City on behalf of an elderly resident who tripped and fell on sandbags at a senior center. The lawsuit alleges that the City should have kept the walkways free of obstacles, especially...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Renee Spencer, a Baltimore City resident, has filed suit against The Asset Recovery Group, LLC doing business as The Judgment Group ("The Judgment Group"), one of its employees, and her former landlord, for debt collection violations alleging that The Judgment Group...
The attorneys at Santoni, Vocci & Ortega have been testifying in Annapolis during the 2018 Maryland legislative session regarding bills that will help tenants, consumers, those experiencing poverty, disabled individuals and the elderly. We do not get paid as...
On August 10, 2017, at the end of trial prosecuted by Jane Santoni on behalf of homeowners against a landscape/hardscape contractor, a Baltimore County jury found that Defendant Peter Ireland, Jr. of "PieScape" committed fraud, violated Maryland's Consumer Protection...
The attorneys of Santoni, Vocci & Ortega, LLC ("SVO") filed a proposed class action suit in Circuit Court for Baltimore City on December 1, 2016 alleging that Blue Ocean Realty, LLC, the property management company for numerous residential properties, violated...
On Friday, March 24, 2017, the Maryland Court of Appeals, the highest court in Maryland, held that when a company files suit against a consumer in small claims court, the company cannot later force the consumer into arbitration if the consumer files a suit later...