Judge Orders Stay Pending Settlement of TCPA Claims vs. Citibank
In light of the "pending settlement" of plaintiff Rita Estep-Wendell’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act claims against Citibank, the action is stayed because it’s “unnecessary to conduct further proceedings in this matter,” said an order signed Tuesday (docket 3:23-cv-00627) by U.S.…
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District Judge Robert Chambers for Southern West Virginia in Huntington. Chambers will lift the stay for good cause shown upon the motion of a party within 30 days, said the order. The parties will submit an agreed order of dismissal by Nov. 24, it said. If they fail to do so, the court will enter an order dismissing the case without prejudice, it said. Estep-Wendell’s Sept. 20 complaint alleged that Citibank hounded her with debt collection calls that persisted even after she hired an attorney to send the bank a certified letter demanding that the calls stop (see 2309210016)