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A resolution honoring and recognizing David Tarpley for 56 years of service to the people of Nashville and Davidson County as an attorney with the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands.
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WHEREAS, David Tarpley joined the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands in 1971, immediately upon his graduation from Vanderbilt University Law School, and has served the low-income residents of Middle Tennessee continuously in the 56 years since, never once leaving the practice of poverty law; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Tarpley has served as the longtime managing attorney of the Legal Aid Society's consumer section and as its lead housing and consumer law attorney, representing Nashvillians facing foreclosure rescue schemes, predatory lending, unlawful debt collection, usurious lending, and fraudulent home solicitation sales; and
WHEREAS, through his litigation, Mr. Tarpley has secured not only relief for individual clients but also structural protection for the broader public, including a series of federal actions against a Tennessee collection agency that resulted in cash settlements, a permanent injunction against numerous illegal practices, and the revocation of the agency's license by the Tennessee Collection Services Board; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Tarpley filed Tennessee's first case coupling equitable mortgage and Truth in Lending Act claims on behalf of a homeowner victimized by a foreclosure rescue scheme, and secured rescission of the transaction in federal district court; and
WHEREAS, in eighteen mortgage rescission actions against a trio of commonly owned corporations engaged in high-pressure, fraudulent home solicitation sales, Mr. Tarpley obtained rescission of the installment contract and release of the mortgage in every single case; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Tarpley has shaped the body of Tennessee consumer law itself, drafting legislation and testifying before legislative committees on landmark statutes including the Tennessee Consumer ...
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