Motion To Dismiss Credit Card Lawsuit

A motion to dismiss can be a great tool but is not your best tool in a collection case. Many people have discovered that the banks have been suing people for years with the same complaint forms under the same banking system of rules and procedures. In fact, many of the law firms representing these banks have contributed to the very way these cases are processed by the court.

It is essential to know the rules for dismissal in general, because the court is going to be assuming that all the allegations in the complaint are true. Then if the plaintiffs allegations are not adequate enough to state a cause of action, the motion can be granted. It is important to understand that banks and their attorneys have been using the courts system under the same set of rules and procedures for around a century, since 1913, many of these attorneys assisted with it. You can expect that the complaint templates they are now using withstood many thousands of tests, just like the motion to dismiss you might prepare to file. In other words, there complaint is correct, accurate and written in a calculated form. Your likelihood of having it dismissed in this type of motion is very small. Your only advantage is probably delay.

What you should know is the court will have a hearing on the motion in lieu of you having to file an answer, and after it is denied you will have another ten or twenty days to file your answer. You will know that the answer must be filed because the judge will rule on the motion at a hearing.

The judge is requred at a hearing on a motion to dismiss to stay with in the confines of the "four corners" of the complaint and assume that everything the plaintiffs complaint says is the truth (for the limited purpose of this motion). Then, if any essential elements of the complaint's cause(s) of action are missing, the judge may dismiss part or all of the complaint (usually giving the plaintiff a reasonable time to amend the complaint to cure its deficiency). The judge will not allow the plaintiff to bring in witnesses, present documents, or otherwise add anything to what his complaint states on its face. Such hearings are non-evidentiary. The hearing usually takes places in about thirty to sixty days giving you additional time to delay. There is a slight chance your motion will be granted but don't expect it.

Your chance of having a motion to dismiss granted is not very good for a credit card lawsuit. Your chances are much greater for a non-standard type of lawsuit, like your neighbor suing you in his own behalf with out a lawyer in small claims court over some ridiculous argument. Chances are he used his own form or list of statements that he hand wrote at the clerk's desk when he filed it and paid the filing fee. He probably missed something substantial, but dont think that the attorneys representing the largest banking institutions on the planet "missed something".

Attorneys for these large banking institutions are known for standing in the same place for hours obtaining a series of default judgments. And for those defendants who bother to show up, the judge just asks them to step aside and make payment arrangements then still enters a judgment against them. The only times those complaints are tested is when an attorney is retained for the defense, and because most believe there is no defense except whether or not the complaint was sufficiently plead, they will try a motion to dismiss. That is the reason why the complaints now used by the banks are probably impenetrable, if they use the same standard forms.

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