Carbon County Court news
Debt collection suits
Portfolio Recovery Associates LLC, Norfolk, Virginia, as assignee and/or successor in interest to Citibank N.A./Tractor Supply, has filed a debt collection suit against Michael Neff, 647 Upper Nis Hollow Drive, Lehighton. The plaintiff is seeking judgment in the amount of $2,406.54, plus costs.
Portfolio Recovery Associates LLC, Norfolk, Virginia, as assignee and/or successor in interest to Citibank N.A./Best Buy, has filed a debt collection suit against Carlos Antiquera Rodriguez, 152 Claremont Drive, Albrightsville. The plaintiff is seeking judgment in the amount of $3,178.46, plus costs.
Portfolio Recovery Associates LLC, Norfolk, Virginia, as assignee and/or successor in interest to Capital One Bank U.S.A., has filed a debt collection suit against Richard P. Williams, 306 Columbia Ave., Palmerton. The plaintiff is seeking judgment in the amount of $1,227.33, plus costs.
Barclays Bank Delaware, Wilmington, Delaware, has filed a credit account default action against Jacquelyn Duman, 46 Ute Trail, No. D7, Albrightsville.
The plaintiff is seeking judgment in the amount of $2,379.81, plus costs.
State lien filed
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Labor and Industry, Harrisburg, has filed a state tax lien against Tanya Formisano, trading as K&T Construction, 326 Wild Creek Drive, Jim Thorpe. The lien seeks $5,162.72 in employer withholding taxes not remitted to the commonwealth for the period of March 2014 through February 2015.
Mortgage foreclosure
Ditech Financial LLC, and Green Tree Servicing LLC, Tampa, Florida, has filed a mortgage foreclosure complaint against Edwina B. Miller, 641 Lehigh Ave., Palmerton, over a property at that address. Judgment in the amount of $63,245.78, plus interest, costs, fees and attorney's fees, is sought.
Borough judgments
East Side Borough, through its attorney, James Nanovic, has filed two judgments against Barry L. and Lois A. Hanson, 832 Bridge St., White Haven.
One judgment is in the amount of $1,140.55, for unpaid sewer and garbage bills for a property at 903 Bridge St., and the second judgment is in the amount of $1,671.19 for unpaid sewer and garbage bills for a property at 832 Bridge St.
Writ of summons
The CMS Medical Care Corporation, 211 N. 12th St., Lehighton, has filed a civil complaint against Muhamad Aly Rifai, M.D., Easton.
The suit, started by the filing of a writ of summons, in which the specific claims do not have to be contained in the initial pleadings, demands a jury trial.
Judgment recorded
The Campton Funeral Home, 525 Delaware Ave., Palmerton, has filed a certification of judgment in its favor against Donna M. Caldwell, 35 Sam Brooke Circle, Lehighton.
The judgment, ordered by Magisterial District Judge William Kissner of Palmerton on June 20, is in the amount of $5,471.11.
Seeks dues, assessments
The Glen Onoko Estates Property Owners Association has filed two judgments against property owners who it says owes unpaid dues and assessments.
One judgment is against Thomas Ellis Jr., 342 Fawn Circle, Jim Thorpe, in the amount of $875, and the second judgment is against Thomas Lienhard Jr., P.O. Box 4002, Old Piney Road, Jim Thorpe, in the amount of $500.
Appeals suspension
Raymond E. Fisher Jr. and Fisher Motor Sales and Service Inc., 2400 State St., White Haven, East Side Borough, is appealing the suspension of the business's official inspection station by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, department of Transportation, Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
The state notified the owned on Aug. 16 that its certificate of appointment as an official safety inspection station would be suspended for two months, effective Sept. 15.
In its appeal, Fisher says a representative of PennDOT conducted an inspection of a vehicle inspected by Shawn Fisher of the business approximately 5½ months after the inspection took place on Nov. 24, 2015, and that due to the substantial period of time between the inspection and the PennDOT representative's inspection, the vehicle was not in the same condition as it was at the time of the original inspection.
Fisher also argues the presence of rust is not a violation of the Vehicle Equipment and Inspection Regulations and that the vehicle was not in violation of those regulations.
