August 14, 2023
Two companies enmeshed in the "elaborate corporate web" of the alleged orchestrator of a loan sharking operation can't escape a class action accusing the companies of participating in a scheme that used a Native American tribe's sovereign immunity to shirk usury laws, a Virginia federal judge ruled.
June 09, 2020
A vendor for two Michigan tribal companies involved in online lending has asked a Virginia federal court to toss a proposed class action saying he used the tribe's sovereign legal status to charge usurious interest rates, saying it's up to Congress to change laws favoring Indian Country.
February 10, 2020
The founder and former CEO of a consulting company that was sold and merged into an online lender accused of flouting usury laws has asked a Virginia federal court to consolidate three proposed class actions, arguing the plaintiffs asked for the same in a move for multidistrict litigation that's since been withdrawn.