Legal Opinion
Williams v. First Government Mortgage & Investors Corp.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided August 1, 2000No. 97-7195, 97-7243PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge TATEL.
TATEL, Circuit Judge:
Brad Williams refinanced his Washington, D.C. home with First Government Mortgage and Investors Corporation. Unable to make his monthly payments and threatened with foreclosure, Williams sued First Government, raising common law and both state and federal statutory causes of action. A jury found First Government liable under the D.C. Consumer Protection Procedures Act and awarded damages. The district court trebled the damages, denied Williams’s common law unconscionability and federal Truth in Lending Act claims, and…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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- Dolores J. Copeland, Individually and on Behalf of the Class of All Others Similarly Situated v. F. Ray Marshall, Secretary of LaborCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1980
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3Cited by35 opinions
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