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A class action has been filed against First Capital Bank, an Oklahoma bank, by farmers who entered into loans with them and were charged high rates of interest. The loans were guaranteed by the Farm Service Agency (FSA) and subject to strict rules and regulations that were not followed. The class members also allege that the Bank used loan monies for their own purposes. Members seek compensation for interest paid, exemplary and punitive damages, and costs and attorney fees.

A class action lawsuit was recently filed against U.S. Bank of California for charging employees of business payroll accountholders a $10 fee to cash their paychecks. Many of these employees are lower-paid workers who do not hold personal checking accounts and rely on their employers' banks to cash their checks.

A statewide class action has been filed in Oklahoma Against Viking Collection Service, Inc. The action is brought on behalf of all Oklahoma consumers who were contacted by Viking regarding an alleged debt and who were subject to allegedly abusive and unfair collection attempts. The action is brought under the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and seeks compensatory, statutory and punitive damages as well as injunctive and declaratory relief.

Indiana consumers are fed up with payday loan businesses that charge excessive interest. A class action has been filed against payday loan businesses Credit Bureau of South Bend, Inc., American Check Cashiers, Inc., and their owners on behalf of all persons who allege that the company charged them interest rates far above those allowed by the federal Truth in Lending Act, and the Indiana Consumer Fraud Act.

A statewide class action has been filed in Indiana against collection specialists Weltman, Weinberg & Reis. The action is brought on behalf of all Indiana consumers who received standard form type collection letters from Weltman, Weinberg & Reis which failed to provide an accurate accounting of the consumer's outstanding debt. The action is brought under the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and seeks statutory damages as well as injunctive and declaratory relief.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Northern District Court of Alabama against Franklin Collection Services, Inc. for violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). Class members seek actual and statutory damages, attorney's fees and costs of the litigation.

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