Parties Settle Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Lawsuit Against T-Mobile
The parties reached a settlement in plaintiff Jose Alarcon’s debt-collection complaint against T-Mobile, said Alarcon’s settlement notice Wednesday (docket 2:22-cv-07831) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Los Angeles. The parties request 60 days to finalize the settlement and…
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anticipate filing a joint motion of dismissal with prejudice then, said the notice. Alarcon had alleged under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act that T-Mobile made no attempt to investigate his identity theft claims, but instead kept trying to collect from him the debt on the fraudulent account and reported his delinquency to the major credit agencies (see 2211040006). T-Mobile asserted that any violation of the statute, if one occurred at all, was the result of “bona fide error.”