Crystal LINTON, et al.
v.
CONSUMER PROTECTION DIVISION.
Court of Appeals of Maryland.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
January 6, 2020.
March 3, 2020.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Argued by Raymond L. Marshall (Chason, Rosner, Leary & Marshall, LLC, Towson, MD; Brian S. Brown, Leah Barron and Eleanor Chung, Brown & Barron LLC, Baltimore, MD; Byron B. Warnken, Warnken, LLC, Pikesville, MD) and Charles Sims (Alison Duffy, O'Hagan Meyer, PLLC, Richmond, VA; Matthew Berkowitz and Brian M. O'Shea, Carr Maloney, P.C., Washington, DC; Gregg E. Viola, Eccleston & Wolf, P.C., Hanover, MD), on briefs, for Petitioners/Cross-Petitioners.
Argued by Joshua N. Auerbach, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Christopher J. Madaio, Asst. Atty. Gen., William D. Gruhn, Chief, Consumer Protection Division and Brian E. Frosh, Attorney General of Maryland, Baltimore, MD), on brief, for Respondents/Cross-Respondents.
Tonya Kelly Cronin, Esquire, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, 100 Light Street, Baltimore, MD 21202, Amicus Curiae National Association of Settlement Purchasers in Support of Petitioners/Cross-Respondents.
Dena Elizabeth Robinson, Murnaghan Appellate Advocacy Fellow, Public Justice Center, One North Charles Street, Suite 200, Baltimore, MD 21201, Amicus Curiae Public Justice Center in Support of Respondent/Cross-Petitioner.
Thomas McCray-Worrall, Senior Counsel, Mary McLeod, General Counsel, John R. Coleman, Deputy General Counsel, Steven Y. Bressler, Assistant General Counsel, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 1700 G Street, NW, Washington, DC 20552, Amicus Curiae Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Support of Respondent/Cross-Petitioner.
Barbera, C.J., McDonald, Hotten, Getty, Booth, Lynne A. Battaglia, (Senior Judge, Specially Assigned) Alan M. Wilner, (Senior Judge, Specially Assigned).
Wilner, J.
This is a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of 100 individuals who had assigned structured settlement annuity benefits they were entitled to receive from various tortfeasors to petitioner Access Funding, LLC or its affiliates or designees (collectively "Access"). The lawsuit, which we shall refer to as the Linton action, was...
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