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The case involves a court-appointed receiver tasked with distributing assets recovered from a Ponzi scheme involving over 230 investors who were defrauded by Kevin Merrill, Jay Ledford, and Cameron Jezierski. The appellants, two groups of investors (the Dean Investors and the Connaughton Investors), challenged the district court's approval of the receiver's plan to distribute the recovered assets.

The receiver proposed to use the "Rising Tide" method to distribute funds.  The Rising Tide method:

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Papa G. Vitalia filed a complaint against several defendants, including Early Warning Services, LLC (EWS), under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). Vitalia alleged that EWS reported inaccurate information on his credit report, after once previously deleting that information, which resulted in him being denied credit from several banks.

EWS filed a motion to dismiss the complaint, arguing that Vitalia did not provide enough factual details to support his claims. Specifically, EWS contended that:

Available at:   https://ssrn.com/abstract=4870978 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4870978

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Available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4891322

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Available at:  http://web.mit.edu/cjpalmer/www/AIIP-Bankruptcy-Bias.pdf

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Available at:  https://ssrn.com/abstract=4878756 

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