California -- Lawsuits against ACCS
del Campo v. ACCS, Civ. No. 01-21151 JW (Northern District of California-San Jose):
Plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in 2001, against ACCS and the individual and companies that worked with ACCS to collect checks. On December 3, 2008, the district court certified a class of all people in California from whom ACCS attempted to collect from December 12, 1997 to the present. When
ACCS filed a bankruptcy on January 19, 2009, this temporarily stopped
the action, but on March 12, 2009, the court ruled that the action
could continue against the other defendants. As a result of the ACCS bankruptcy, the proceedings against ACCS have been stayed indefinately. However, the lawsuit is continuing against Don Mealing, Lynn Hasney and the other non-ACCS defendants. On March 15, 2010 the Court heard motions for summary judgment,
On June 3, 2010, the Court ruled that in
California Don Mealing and Lynn Hasney had been violating federal and state law by: (1)
impersonating the district attorney in its letters, (2) charging a fee
for a "diversion" class; and, (3) threatening to prosecute check writers
who did not pay for the diversion program. You can see a copy of the
court's order here.
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