NPR’s Planet Money on What Happened to Western Sky

Here.

An excerpt:

On TV this summer, you might have seen this ad with a smiling young woman offering help for all those troublesome bills.

“The problem-solver from Western Sky. Get up to $10,000 without collateral. Enough to pay off your payday advances, once and for all,” she says.

There’s a beating drum in , presumably to drive home a point — Western Sky says it’s 100 percent Native-American owned and therefore exempt from state laws banning high-cost loans.

But Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of financial services for New York State, doesn’t buy that argument. “These are companies looking to prey on people who in my opinion are some of the most vulnerable people in our society,” he says.

Updated Materials in Heldt v. Payday Financial — Amended Complaint

Additional materials here:

23 Motion for Stay and to Compel Arbitration

30 Amended Complaint

31 Opposition to Motion for Stay

33 Reply in Support of Motion for Stay

34 Motion to Dismiss Amended Complaint

Prior posts here and here.

Western Sky Motion to Dismiss Heldt Class Action in South Dakota

Here is the motion in Heldt v. Payday Financial LLC (D. S.D.):

Western Sky Motion to Dismiss

Complaint here.

Federal Court Reopens Inetianbor v. Cashcall (Again) After Plaintiff Shows Reservation Arbitration a Sham

New materials here:

DCT Order Granting Renewed Motion for Reconsideration

Inetianbor Renewed Motion to Reconsider

Cashcall Opposition to Renewed Motion

Inetianbor Reply in Support of Renewed Motion for Reconsideration

Prior posts here, here, and here.

New York ex rel. Schneiderman v. Western Sky Materials

Here:

NY Petition

NY Memorandum of Law

Exhibits

News coverage.

NYTs: New York Regulators Targeting Western Sky

Here. H/t Pechanga.

Michigan Regulators Targeting Western Sky Financial

News coverage here. And here.

Pending Indian Country Payday Lender Case — Brown v. Western Sky

Here are the materials so far in Brown v. Western Sky Financial (M.D. N.C.):

ws — complaint filed, nc federal court

NC case — amended complaint — Western Sky

brown — brief re amend as filed

Western Sky Motion to Dismiss

brown — brief re dismiss — as filed

Western Sky Motion to Compel Arbitration

brown — brief re arb as filed

Federal Trade Commission Partially Settles Suit against Indian Country Payday Lenders

The case is Federal Trade Commission v. AMG Services (D. Nev.). Here are the most recent materials from the FTC website:

News coverage here.

Briefs here:

FTC Motion for Partial Summary J

AMG Response

Brady Response

Tucker Defendants Response

FTC Reply

 

Federal Court Class Action Complaint Filed against Payday Financial/Western Sky/Butch Webb

Here is the complaint in Heldt v. Payday Financial LLC (D. S.D.):

Heldt Complaint

News coverage here.