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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...
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...
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...
Buyers of consumer products are often offered or sold warranties with the products they are purchasing, especially in the case of big purchases, like a car. What many consumers probably don’t know is that a federal law, the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, applies to many...
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...
Two Maryland residents filed a class action lawsuit today, challenging Westminster Management, LLC’s alleged practice of charging its tenants excessive, illegal fees. The lawsuit contends that Westminster Management, LLC, JK2 Westminster, LLC, Dutch Village, LLC, and...
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...