Maybe due to the recession, the Deseret Information discovered that the true quantity of legal actions filed by payday lenders jumped by 25 % between 2008 and 2009 — from at least 9,666 instances to 11,250.
Significantly more than two of each and every five payday cases statewide during 2009 were filed when you look at the Provo District small-claims court (the city in which the Check that is large City its head office). Documents reveal that at the least 5,005 for the 6,177 overall small-claims cases there had been filed by payday loan providers, or 81 %.
Over the Wasatch Front, 49 % of all of the small-claims situations had been filed during 2009 by payday loan providers.
That features at the very least 53 per cent regarding the small-claims situations in the western Jordan District, 41 per cent in Layton, 39 % in Orem and 38 % in Ogden. Some Wasatch Front small-claims courts, nonetheless, had reasonably few payday loan provider cases — including 16.1 percent in Salt Lake City, and 0.7 per cent in Bountiful.
Paul Vance, court professional when it comes to 4th District court, which include the Provo small-claims court, noted that lots of borrowers agree inside their initial loan papers to possess any legal actions entered within the 4th District (which will be convenient for businesses such as for instance Check City), regardless if the borrowers reside a long way away.
