{"id":333856,"date":"2026-06-12T17:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T17:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/333856\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T17:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T17:04:09","slug":"el-paso-federal-court-awards-brandon-callier-530905-00-default","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/333856\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso Federal Court Awards Brandon Callier $530,905.00 Default"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just picked up this short (and not very sweet) ruling awarding Brandon Callier $530,905.00 in a default judgment against United Fundings.<\/p>\n<p>$530,905.00\u2013 for a a repeat litigator with no lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>This is why they do it folks.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the largest default judgment awards in favor of a pro per I\u2019ve ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>The order does not discuss the underlying facts but breaks down the award as:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cincluding $120,500.00 under the TCPA, $410,000.00 under the TBCC, and $405.00 in court costs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As TCPAWorld readers know the TCPA contains a $500-$1,500 per violation penalty and violations of the Texas Business and Commerce Code (TBCC) Chapters 304 and 305 (the \u201cMini-TCPA\u201d) range as high as $10k with $5k permitted for registration violations!<\/p>\n<p>While I don\u2019t have all the underlying facts here, the fact the awarded TBCC damages dwarf the TCPA component confirm the importance of state law compliance.<\/p>\n<p>Case is\u00a0Callier v. United Fundings LLC,\u00a02026 WL 1630445 (W.D. Tex. May 13, 2026).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just picked up this short (and not very sweet) ruling awarding Brandon Callier $530,905.00 in a default judgment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-333856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}