No one enjoys receiving unsolicited telemarketing text messages, but can consumers sue organizations for sending them? Increasingly, the answer depends on whether the federal courts in which consumers bring their lawsuits will defer to the agencies Congress charged with protecting them in the wake of recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions holding that those courts need
PHILADELPHIA, June 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Four attorneys from Francis Mailman Soumilas, P.C., a nationally recognized consumer protection law firm based in Philadelphia, have been selected to the 2026 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list for their exceptional work representing consumers in complex litigation matters. James A. Francis, Mark D. Mailman, John J. Soumilas, and Joseph L.
Finding stable employment today is increasingly challenging, thanks to a cooling labor market driven by slow job growth, economic uncertainty, and mismatches between the skills employers seek and the skills applicants have. Recent forecasts show that job openings are stabilizing rather than expanding, unemployment duration is rising, and shifting economic conditions, such as tariff-related uncertainty,
The Illinois Supreme Court recently issued a significant decision affecting Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) claims brought in Illinois state courts. In Fausett v. Walgreens, the court held that consumers must demonstrate a concrete, actual injury to have standing to pursue claims under the FCRA and FACTA, rather than relying solely on statutory violations. The
In a significant win for consumers, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently ruled that companies reporting information to credit bureaus—known as “furnishers”—can be held accountable under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) for failing to investigate disputes that involve both legal and factual issues, as long as the disputed information is
Francis Mailman Soumilas, P.C. Partner Jim Francis Interviewed by The Washington Post in Report on Social Security’s False Death Listings A recent Washington Post investigation has uncovered that the Trump administration pressured the Social Security Administration (SSA) to falsely declare over 6,000 living immigrants as deceased — a move designed to strip them of their
In the last days of the Biden administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) under director Rohit Chopra was busy. From ordering Cash App’s operators to pay $175 million for allegedly allowing fraud to proliferate on its platform, to suing Capital One for allegedly cheating consumers out of $2 billion in interest payments, Chopra and
Francis Mailman Soumilas, P.C., recently filed a lawsuit on behalf of a South Carolina man against TransUnion, Experian, Equifax, and Rushmore Loan Management Services in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, alleging that all four companies violated the U.S. Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”). According to the complaint in the lawsuit,
Francis Mailman Soumilas, P.C. co-founder Jim Francis recently lent his expertise to the Philadelphia Inquirer regarding the changes to medical debt reporting that took effect July 1. Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax, the three largest credit reporting agencies, announced that new and existing medical debt will now be removed from credit reports as soon as it
Having practiced consumer rights law for more than two decades, it’s not unusual for other lawyers to tell me they have no idea what consumer rights law is, and that they highly doubt their clients have legal issues that would fall under the consumer rights umbrella. But ignorance is not bliss, especially when it comes