Category: Class Action

On June 29, 2015, the Court approved a class action notice form to be sent to all class members. The notice will be sent by first class U.S. mail to all class members in late July. The purpose of the notice is to inform class members about the pending lawsuit. The approved notice provides...

Farmer Jaffe Weissing is class counsel in a lawsuit brought by three members of the former Ritz-Carlton Golf Club and Spa - Jupiter. The club members seek a refund, for themselves and other club members, of refundable deposits which they paid to the owner of the Ritz-Carlton club. Donald Trump's organization purchased the Ritz-Carlton...

Plaintiffs, Norman Hirsch, Matthew Dwyer, and Ralph Willard, claim that they and other club members paid refundable deposits to the former club owner, Ritz-Carlton entity RBF, LLC, when they joined the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club & Spa - Jupiter. The membership agreement and membership plan requires the club owner to refund deposits to club members...

Club Members Focus Claims against Trump Class counsel, Farmer Jaffe Weissing, have focused the membership deposit lawsuit against the Trump organization's Jupiter Golf Club, LLC. This lawsuit is brought on behalf of a class of more than 100 club members who are seeking a refund of millions of dollars of deposits paid to purchase memberships...

Consumers are flooded by spam text messages and unauthorized "Robocalls". It's been reported that 69 percent of Americans receive junk texts each day. Americans received a whopping 4.5 billion unsolicited texts last year. In comparison, a Kellogg company survey claims that less than 34 percent of Americans eat breakfast daily. Junk Texts and Robocalls Outlawed These...

Consumers frequently receive unwanted cell phone calls for sales, marketing, debt collection, and surveys. These calls violate the law if they are placed without consent through the use of a computerized dialing system or uses a recorded message. Even if the consumer consented to receive the initial call or calls, the consumer may revoke...

Time Warner Cable (Time Warner) is a national cable telecommunication company. Araceli King is a long-time customer of Time Warner. Time Warner uses an "interactive voice response" system (IVR) to advise customers that their accounts are past due. The IVR system automatically identifies past due accounts by referencing billing records and then dials the...

Most people find unwanted cell phone calls and texts annoying. Luckily, a federal law, the TCPA, prohibits unwanted calls from being placed to cell phones. Time Warner Cable Inc. was ordered to pay a consumer $229,500 for placing 153 automated calls in less than a year. Consumers frequently receive the type of unwanted calls...

Class action practitioners and consumer rights watchdogs were anxiously anticipating last month’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins case. The court’s 6-2 vote to vacate the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s ruling and remand the case to determine whether plaintiff Thomas Robins indeed met the legal...