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He brings this putative class action on behalf of himself and the general public of the District of Columbia, under the private attorney general provision of the District of Columbia Consumer Protection Procedures Act CPPA. Deoleo moves to dismiss Fahey's suit for of two reasons, first because Fahey has failed to plead facts that could give rise to a right to relief and second because a settlement in a separate class action suit involving similar claims precludes this one.
The District of Columbia Consumer Protection Procedures Act makes it unlawful to engage in an unfair or deceptive trade practice, whether or not any consumer is in fact misled, deceived, or damaged thereby. Illustrative unfair or deceptive practices include representing that goods or services have characteristics, ingredients, uses, benefits, or quantities that they do not have and representing that goods or services are of a particular standard, quality, grade, style or model, if in fact they are of another.
On Deoleo's motion to dismiss, therefore, the question is whether Fahey has alleged facts that support an inference that the particular bottle of Bertolli EVOO he purchased in April contained something other than extra virgin olive oil. The Court concludes that he has not. Despite the complaint's lengthy catalog of the olive oil industry's purported scandals, Fahey marshals but one fact to substantiate his claim that this defendant deceptively mislabeled the bottle of extra virgin olive Fahey purchased in the results of a study on olive oil quality by the University of California, Davis.
This meager factual content is not enough for the court to draw the reasonable inference that Deoleo is liable for the misconduct alleged. As it sees things, the Court would have to indulge at least three major and dubious assumptions to draw the inference Fahey asks for here: one methodological, one temporal, and one geographic.
Start with the methodological assumption: is there good reason to think the methods used in the UC Davis study can support general conclusions about the quality of Bertolli olive oil? Not really. The sample size was small only three bottles of Bertolli EVOO were tested and none of them came from the same lot, which is the testing protocol called for by the United States Department of Agriculture.
As Deoleo points out, olive oil is not a mass produced plastic object, but a living, breathing organic product that is produced in individual lots with slight variations between the lots. What is more, the results were inconclusive. The Bertolli EVOO samples satisfied the chemical criteria needed to be considered extra virgin but a taste test concluded the samples were merely virgin.
Yet taste tests, by their nature, are subjective; that is why the international body that establishes olive oil quality standards the very same standards used in the UC Davis study concluded that the UC Davis study should have convened a new panel of testers to verify the impression of the first.
In sum, to hold that Fahey has pled facts that suggest a plausible right to relief would require the Court to entertain not one, not two, but all three of these assumptions. Unconvinced that any single one of them is warranted, the Court will grant Deoleo's motion to dismiss.
Willcox -- tinglima wilsav. Kirtland -- matthew. Civil Action No. Brandi Salls brings a putative class action challenging the practice of Digital Federal Credit Union and DOES 1 through to charge overdraft fees when members accounts have sufficient funds to cover the transactions. Breach of Contract When an agreement between the parties is contained in more than one document, the separate documents must be read together to effectuate the intentions of the parties.
Here, although the Agreements are separate, they are arguably linked with respect to an account holder's overdraft protection. Because the Plaintiff has not laid out any facts supporting the inference that the agreements should not be construed together even though they are arguably linked with respect to overdraft protection, The Court will consider the overdraft agreement in the context of the Account Agreement for the purposes of this motion.
Members opt in to the Defendant's overdraft service by checking a box on their checking and savings account application. The Opt In Agreement is accompanied by an overdraft disclosure form. The disclosure provides, in relevant part: "An overdraft occurs when you do not have enough money in your account to cover the transaction, but we pay it anyway. The Defendant argues that these passages clearly demonstrate that the overdraft service utilizes members' available balance.
The Defendant next contends that available balance' is a well-known banking term that has long been understood to mean the money in an account minus holds placed on funds to account for uncollected deposits and for pending debit transactions. Finally, the Defendant argues that The Funds Availability Policy in the Account Agreement provides explicit guidance for members of various scenarios in which funds will not be immediately available.
For two reasons the Defendant's argument fails. First, the Defendant did not properly define available balance and its meaning is therefore ambiguous. The Plaintiff contends that her account balance was artificially low not only because there was a hold placed on deposits into her account but also because the Defendant subtracted pending transactions from the ledger balance.
Indeed, this is how the Defendant calculates available balance. Nowhere, however, does the Funds Availability Policy mention this second scenario or clarify how it might affect a member's balance. Instead, the Funds Availability Policy only explains how there may be a delay on funds coming into a member's account. Despite not sufficiently defining the term, Defendant argues that available balance nonetheless a well-known term that reasonable members would understand.
The Court finds, however, that the meaning of the term as used in the Account Agreement is ambiguous. Indeed, several courts, have found similar contractual arraignments ambiguous when they used the term available balance. Second, even if it was clear that the Defendant subtracted pending transactions to calculate available balance, neither of the Account Agreement sections pertaining to over-drafting nor the Opt In Agreement refer members to the Funds Availability Policy to find explanations of how their balance is calculated for purposes of overdrafts.
Likewise, the Funds Availability policy makes no reference of how it might be related to overdrafts. Thus, it is not at all clear that Defendant would use the available balance when determining if an account was overdrawn even if that term were defined adequately. Therefore, the Court finds that the Plaintiff has plausibly argued that the contracts, even when construed together, are ambiguous as to whether they use the available balance method to determine whether an account has been overdrafted.
This ambiguity presents a factual dispute not appropriate for resolution on this motion. Accordingly, the Plaintiff's breach of contract claim survives the Defendant's motion to dismiss. Breach of the Implied Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing Under Massachusetts law, a plaintiff states a claim for breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing when one party violates the reasonable expectations of the other.
For the reasons stated above, the Court finds that a reasonable person could have construed the contracts to mean that Defendant would use the ledger balance method when calculating overdrafting fees. Thus, Plaintiff plausibly states a claim that her reasonable expectations were violated, and that Defendant therefore breached the implied covenant.
Unjust Enrichment and Money Had and Received The Defendant argues that because a contractual relationship exists, there can be no claims for unjust enrichment and money had and received. The Defendant is correct that Massachusetts law does not allow litigants to override an express contract by arguing unjust enrichment. Here, the Plaintiff asserts that she entered into binding contracts with Defendant and uses the same theories to support both her breach of contract and equitable claims.
The Plaintiff does not allege that the Defendant was enriched because it received a benefit outside the scope of the contracts between the parties. Rather, the Plaintiff alleges that the benefit was conferred upon the Defendant because it breached the contract.
As such, the Plaintiffs equitable claims must fail. Regulation E provides, in relevant part: "A financial institution shall not assess a fee or charge on a consumer's account for paying an ATM or one-time debit card transaction pursuant to the institution's overdraft service, unless the institution: i Provides the consumer with a notice in writing, or if the consumer agrees, electronically, segregated from all other information, describing the institution's overdraft service; ii Provides a reasonable opportunity for the consumer to affirmatively consent, or opt in, to the service for ATM and one-time debit card transactions; iii Obtains the consumer's affirmative consent, or opt-in, to the institution's payment of ATM or one-time debit card transactions; and iv Provides the consumer with confirmation of the consumer's consent in writing, or if the consumer agrees electronically, which includes a statement informing the consumer of the right to revoke such consent.
The Defendant contends that when read in conjunction with the Agreement, the Opt-In Agreement sufficiently and accurately describes Defendant's policies. For the reasons stated above in the context of the breach of contract claim, the language Defendant uses is ambiguous. Therefore, the Court do not find that enough money accurately describes Defendant's policy of using the available balance method such that a member could meaningfully provide affirmative consent. Financial institutions are protected from liability under EFTA for any failure to make disclosure in proper form if a financial institution utilized an appropriate model clause issued by the Bureau or the Board.
The Defendant relies on Tims v. The court in that case found that the safe harbor provision applied because enough money could mean either balance calculation method. Therefore, the court held that LGE cannot be said to have explicitly misled the Plaintiff or inaccurately described its overdraft program. The only thing LGE can be said to be guilty of is a lack of precision.
The Court agrees that the reasoning in Tims is unpersuasive and hold that the safe harbor does not protect Defendant from liability in this case. Individual and class actions for damages for failure to comply with the EFTA may be brought "within one year from the date of the occurrence of the violation. According to Plaintiff, she was wrongly charged overdraft fees on December 18, , December 19, , and upon information and belief at least one other time within twelve months of filing her complaint on June 15, None of the Circuit Courts have directly addressed this issue.
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But the proposed Botswana railway line infrastructure owes its new development projects to the large deposits of fossil fuel, especially coal. It is mandated to provide transportation 38 of goods and passengers within Botswana, efficiently, safely and cost-effectively, along sound commercial lines.
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He says all feasibility studies for the railway project are still underway and the tender for the projects are in progress. The other railway line development projects include the Mosetse-Kazungula rail line, which provides a link from Mosetse in Botswana to Zambia and the rest of Africa via the Kazungula bridge, which is still under construction and due to be completed soon.
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Image Credit: Botswana Railways 2. More than billion tonnes of coal deposits are found in Botswana. The project aims to link these coal deposits to South African heavy haul lines in the Limpopo Province. Ponte Techobanine rail line The missing link will start from Selibe Phikwe in Botswana and connect Rutenga in Zimbabwe and proceed to Techobanine through the Chicualacuala line. The Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique governments want to create a route to the deep seaport of Techobanine.
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