DEPT. OF BANKING v. NCAS OF DELAWARE
Decision Date | 28 April 2010 |
Docket Number | No. 519 M.D. 2006,519 M.D. 2006 |
Citation | 995 A.2d 422 |
Parties | PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF BANKING, and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Acting by Attorney General Thomas W. Corbett, Jr., Plaintiffs v. NCAS OF DELAWARE, LLC, d/b/a Advance America Cash Advance Centers, and Advance America Cash Advance Centers, Inc., Defendants. |
Court | Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court |
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John M. Abel, Sr. Deputy Attorney General, Harrisburg and Robert L. Byer, Pittsburgh, for plaintiffs.
David H. Pittinsky, Philadelphia, for defendants.
BEFORE: LEADBETTER, President Judge, McGINLEY, Judge, PELLEGRINI, Judge, COHN JUBELIRER, Judge, SIMPSON, Judge, LEAVITT, Judge, and BUTLER, Judge.
OPINION BY Judge McGINLEY.
Presently before this Court are the preliminary objections (P.O.s) of NCAS of Delaware, LLC (NCAS)1, Advance America Cash Advance Centers (Advance America)2, and Advance America Cash Advance Centers, Inc (AA)3 (collectively, Defendants) to the amended complaint filed by the Department and the Attorney General (collectively, Plaintiffs).4
This matter first commenced on September 27, 2006, when the Department filed a complaint against NCAS d/b/a Cash Advance Centers and alleged Cash Advance Centers violated the Consumer Discount Company Act (CDCA)5 and the Loan Interest and Protection Law (LIPL).6
Pennsylvania Department of Banking v. NCAS of Delaware, LCC (NCAS I), 931 A.2d 771, 774 (Pa.Cmwlth.2007), affirmed, 596 Pa. 638, 948 A.2d 752 (2008).
Before this Court in NCAS I were the Department's motion for judgment on the pleadings and Cash Advance Centers' cross-motion for judgment on the pleadings:
On December 16, 2008, Plaintiffs filed an amended complaint and alleged:
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