Appeals Court Rejects Renter's Suit Against Hunter Warfiled

A renter’s suit claiming she suffered harms arising from a debt collection agency’s alleged violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act should have been dismissed, a federal appeals court said Friday. Hannah Hekel lacked standing to pursue her claim against Hunter Warfield, Inc., because the US Supreme Court “has rejected the idea that a bare ‘statutory violation’ is a ‘concrete injury,’” and Hekel failed to support her claims of injuries with adequate evidence, the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit said. Her claims of injuries reveal “nothing about ‘how the defendant’s actions’ financially harmed her,” The Judge noted. To read more click here.