Dollar Loan Center, the respondent in the suit, didn’t return requests for comment
Dollar Loan Center, the respondent in the suit, didn’t return requests for comment Nevada’s highest court has ruled that payday lenders can’t sue borrowers who take out and default on secondary loans used to pay off the balance on an initial high-interest loan. In a reversal from a state District Court decision, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled in a 6-1 opinion in December that high interest lenders can’t file civil lawsuits against borrowers who take out a second loan to pay off a defaulted initial, high-interest loan. The court’s ruling focused on a specific area of Nevada’s laws around high-interest loans – which under a 2005 state law include any loans made above 40 percent interest and have a bevy of regulations on repayment and renewing loans Advocates said the ruling is a win for low-income individuals and will help prevent them from getting trapped on the “debt treadmill,” where individuals take out additional loans to pay off an initial loan but are then trapped in a cycle of debt, which can often lead to lawsuits and eventually wage garnishment – a court mandated payday loans Livingston Tennessee cut of wages going to interest or principal payments on a loan. “This is a really good outcome for consumers,” said Tennille Pereira, a consumer litigation attorney with the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada. “It’s one thing to be on the debt treadmill, it’s another thing to be on the garnishment treadmill.” […]