Date Initiated: 12/09/2016
The Class includes all businesses that received a phone call from a call center operated by International Payment Services LLC or one of its affiliates between March 7, 2011, and May 7, 2014, while the call recipient was physically in California, and who did not sign a contract for merchant processing services with First Data Merchant Services LLC.
Date Initiated: 08/16/2021
The Court granted this settlement preliminary approval Aug. 16, 2021.
The Class includes all businesses that received a phone call from a call center operated by International Payment Services LLC or one of its affiliates between March 7, 2011, and May 7, 2014, while the call recipient was physically in California, and who did not sign a contract for merchant processing services with First Data Merchant Services LLC.
Date Initiated: 11/01/2021
CS Wang & Associate, et al. v. Wells Fargo Bank N.A., et al., Case No. 1:16-cv-11223 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division
Date Initiated: 12/09/2016
Plaintiffs in a 2016 class action lawsuit alleged International Payment Services recorded certain calls to businesses in California on behalf of Wells Fargo and First Data Merchant Services without disclosing that the call was being recorded — a violation of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA).
The Class includes all businesses that received a phone call from a call center operated by International Payment Services LLC or one of its affiliates between March 7, 2011, and May 7, 2014, while the call recipient was physically in California, and who did not sign a contract for merchant processing services with First Data Merchant Services LLC.
Date Initiated: 08/16/2021
The Court granted this settlement preliminary approval Aug. 16, 2021.
Class Members who choose not to exclude themselves from the class action lawsuit will be eligible for a cash payment for each eligible call covered under the Class definition.
The exact amount of each payment is not known at this time.
The minimum payment for each eligible call is expected to be about $40, but could be up to $5,000 per call depending on the number of claims submitted.
The deadline to ask to be excluded from or to object to the settlement is Oct. 25, 2021.
The claim deadline is Nov. 1, 2021.
Date Initiated: 11/01/2021
The deadline to file a claim was Nov. 1, 2021.
