The Maryland Court of Appeals has decided to hear an appeal on a critical limitations issue in consumer law. In 2010, Goldman & Minton was retained to act as lead counsel in a case against Wells Fargo Financial Maryland, Inc.…
A GPS Contract Can’t Force Arbitration
On December 12, 2012, the Court of Special Appeals decided, in Meadows v. Easy Financing Corp., that a car finance company cannot rely on the terms of a stand-alone GPS agreement to require arbitration of a consumer’s claims relating to…
G&M Approved as Class Counsel in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case
On November 28, 2011 U.S. District Court Judge Marvin Garbis conditionally certified a settlement class of about 8,500 people in Maryland and D.C. in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case filed by Thomas Minton and co-counsel Bernard Kennedy of…
YUK! Was Your Car Formerly a Rental Car?
In a recent article in a trade magazine, rental car operations managers offered some wild stories about their worst clean-up jobs: maggots, deer parts, boa constrictors, human blood, rodents, urine, dead fish. Of course, rental cars are known for “hard…
G&M Receives Champion of Justice Award from Legal Aid
On May 20, 2010, Kathryn Goldman and Tom Minton received the Champion of Justice Award for Extraordinary Leadership from the Equal Justice Council for their work benefiting Maryland Legal Aid. On August 12, 2009, Kathryn Goldman and Tom Minton had…