Debt Relief Firm Accuses Plaintiff of Concocting TCPA Suits to ‘Enrich Herself’
A debt relief services provider denies Yazmin Gonzalez’s allegations that it violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and the Texas Business and Commerce Code by calling her incessantly to promote its services, said its answer Thursday (docket 3:23-cv-00436) in U.S.…
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District Court for Western Texas in El Paso. Gonzalez estimates she received at least 27 calls from Countrywide Legal Group between Sept. 13 and Nov. 11, to a number she listed on the national do not call registry in February 2023 (see 2312020001). But Countrywide contends Gonzalez’s claims are barred because to the extent the subject calls occurred, such calls “were invited, permitted, consented to, and/or made pursuant to a personal or an established business relationship,” said its answer. It alleges the plaintiff “seeks out, invites, and welcomes” solicitation calls “in an effort to manufacture and pursue litigation.” She does so “not to seek compensation for damages allegedly suffered, as contemplated by statute, but rather to seek to enrich herself by seeking disproportionate payments” from TCPA defendants, said its answer.