Beal v. Wyndham Vacation Resorts, Inc.

956 F. Supp. 2d 962, 2013 WL 3870282, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 89840
CourtDistrict Court, W.D. Wisconsin
DecidedJune 20, 2013
DocketNo. 12-cv-274-bbc
StatusPublished
Cited by14 cases

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Beal v. Wyndham Vacation Resorts, Inc., 956 F. Supp. 2d 962, 2013 WL 3870282, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 89840 (W.D. Wis. 2013).

Opinion

OPINION AND ORDER

BARBARA B. CRABB, District Judge.

In this civil action for monetary relief, plaintiff Terri Beal contends that defendant Wyndham Vacation Resorts, Inc. violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, 47 U.S.C. § 227, the Wisconsin Consumer Act, Wis. Stat. §§ 427-428, and Wisconsin common law in attempting to collect a debt that plaintiff owed defendant for the purchase of timeshare points. Now before the court are the, parties’ cross motions for summary judgment. Defendant moved for summary judgment on all plaintiffs claims, dkt. # 47, but later filed a motion to withdraw its arguments regarding plaintiffs claims under the Wisconsin Consumer Act arising from its telephone calls to plaintiff. Dkt. # 82. I will grant defendant’s motion to withdraw those arguments. Plaintiff moved for partial summary judgment on her claims under the Wisconsin Consumer'Act arising from defendant’s actions in a related state court case and its reporting of her debts to credit reporting companies. Dkt. # 43.

For the reasons that follow, I am denying plaintiffs motion in full and I am granting defendant’s motion in part and denying it in part. I am denying plaintiffs motion and granting defendant’s motion with respect to plaintiffs claims under the Wisconsin Consumer Act and plaintiffs invasion of privacy and private nuisance claims that are premised on defendant’s actions in a related state court proceeding because defendant’s service of the complaint and procedural mistakes in, state court cannot form the basis for a claim under the Wisconsin Consumer Act or common law. I am also denying plaintiffs motion and granting defendant’s motion with respect to plaintiffs Wisconsin Consumer Act Claim premised on defendant’s telephone calls to plaintiff because that claim is preempted by the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.

I am denying defendant’s motion with respect to plaintiffs invasion of privacy and private nuisance claims premised on defendant’s collection call activities from November 2009 to July 2010 because those claims are timely under the continuing violation doctrine. Finally, I am granting [965]*965defendant’s motion with respect to plaintiffs claims under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act for all calls made before January 8, 2010, because plaintiff consented to defendant’s calling her before that date. However, I am denying the motion with respect to calls made after January 8, 2010 and granting summary judgment to plaintiff with respect to those calls, because plaintiff has established that she revoked her consent to be called on that date. I am also awarding plaintiff $14,500 in statutory damages for the calls and prerecorded messages defendant made to plaintiffs cell phone after that date.

PRELIMINARY MATTERS

Before turning to the parties’ motions for summary judgment, there are two evidentiary matters that must be resolved.

A. Plaintiffs Motion to Strike Errata Sheets

Plaintiff has moved to strike errata sheets submitted by defendant in connection with a 30(b)(6) deposition of John Hunt, vice president of collection for Wyndham Consumer Finance. Dkt. #76. Under Fed.R.Civ.P. 30(e), a witness may have 30 days following the preparation of the deposition transcript to review the transcript and make changes via errata by signing a statement detailing the changes and the reason for making them. Plaintiff contends that the errata sheets are untimely and constitute impermissible material changes to Hunt’s testimony for which defendant provided no adequate justification.

Defendant’s submission of Hunt’s errata sheet was not untimely. Defendant submitted evidence demonstrating that it received Hunt’s deposition transcript via electronic mail on February 18, 2013. Martin Aff., dkt. # 80, at ¶ 4; Lueder Aff., dkt. # 79, at ¶ 4. Applying the applicable rules for computing time periods under Fed.R.Civ.P. 6, which allows three extra days if service is made by electronic means, Fed.R.Civ.P. 6(d), defendant’s submission of the errata sheets on March 22, 2013 was timely.

The next question is whether Hunt’s errata sheet makes impermissible material changes to Hunt’s previous deposition testimony.- The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has explained that “a change in substance which actually contradicts the transcript is impermissible [under Fed.R.Civ.P. 30(e) ] unless it can plausibly be represented as the correction of an error in transcription, such as dropping a ‘not.’ ” Thorn v. Sundstrand Aerospace Corp., 207 F.3d 383, 389 (7th Cir.2000). Although plaintiff contends that the errata sheets make changes that clearly contradict Hunt’s deposition testimony, plaintiff fails to point to any change that rises to the level of “contradictory” as that term is used in Thorn. Rather, the changes defendant submits in the errata sheets seem to focus primarily on topics for which Hunt’s knowledge was lacking and for which plaintiff had requested additional information.

Moreover, plaintiff has failed to identify any changes to the 30(b)(6) deposition that are material to the parties’ motions for summary judgment. Neither party relies significantly on Hunt’s deposition testimony in its summary judgment filings and plaintiff identifies no changes in the errata sheet that are relevant to issues before the court. Therefore, I am denying plaintiffs motion to strike the errata sheets. If plaintiff believes that any of the changes on the errata sheets are material to trial and should be excluded, she may file a motion in limine to exclude specific testimony on the errata sheets.

B. Plaintiffs Objections to Defendant’s Proposed Findings of Fact Concerning Call Logs

Defendant maintained a log of the collection calls it made to plaintiff. As part [966]*966of its summary judgment materials, defendant submitted the log along with an affidavit of Edgar Trigueros, supervisor of the contract center operations for Wyndham Consumer Finance, Inc., to explain the entries on the log. Trigueros Aff., dkt. # 50. For the most part, plaintiff does not dispute the substance of defendant’s proposed facts regarding the call logs, but she does raise several objections as to the admissibility of the logs, the completeness of the logs and Triguero’s testimony interpreting the logs.

I conclude that the call logs and notes are admissible under the exception to hearsay for records of regularly conducted activity. Fed.R.Evid. 803(6). Plaintiff has not explained why this exception would not apply. Although Trigueros did not make any of the,.calls himself or enter any of- the notes on the call logs, Trigueros’s position allows him to testify with personal,knowledge about the preparation of call logs and how defendant’s debt collectors enter notes- about calls.

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