PHILIP A. BRIMMER, District Judge.
This matter is before the Court on the motion for summary judgment [Docket No. 17] of defendant Budget Control Services, Inc. ("BCS"). The motion is fully briefed and ripe for disposition.
Unless otherwise indicated, the following facts are not in dispute: Plaintiff incurred a debt that was assigned to BCS on November 3, 2010. BCS contacted plaintiff regarding the debt by phone during the day on more than one occasion during the first weeks of November 2010, with plaintiff returning calls on November 3, 2010 at 2:32 p.m; on November 15, 2010 at 4:26 p.m.; and on November 17, 2010 at 2:33 p.m. See Docket No. 17-2. BCS never called in the middle of the night or early in the morning. Plaintiff knew that BCS could sue him to collect the debt. Furthermore, plaintiff recalls no false statements made by BCS. At the time of the phone calls, plaintiff worked as an athletic trainer at Mountain Vista High School. Plaintiff called BCS regarding the debt while he was at work.
Summary judgment is warranted under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56 when the "movant shows that there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law." Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(a); see Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242, 248-50 (1986); Concrete Works, Inc. v. City & County of Denver, 36 F.3d 1513, 1517 (10th Cir. 1994); see also Ross v. The Board of Regents of the University of New Mexico, 599 F.3d 1114, 1116 (10th Cir. 2010). A disputed fact is "material" if under the relevant substantive law it is essential to proper disposition of the claim. Wright v. Abbott Labs., Inc., 259 F.3d 1226, 1231-32 (10th Cir. 2001). Only disputes over material facts can create a genuine issue for trial and preclude summary judgment. Faustin v. City & County of Denver, 423 F.3d 1192, 1198 (10th Cir. 2005). An issue is "genuine" if the evidence is such that it might lead a reasonable jury to return a verdict for the nonmoving party. Allen v. Muskogee, 119 F.3d 837, 839 (10th Cir. 1997). When reviewing a motion for summary judgment, a court must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the non-moving party. Id.; see McBeth v. Himes, 598 F.3d 708, 715 (10th Cir. 2010).
In his first amended complaint, plaintiff alleged violations of seven subsections of the FDCPA and the parallel provisions of the CFDCPA. On October 25, 2011, the parties filed a joint status report [Docket No. 25] informing the Court that, pursuant to the Final Pretrial Order [Docket No. 23], plaintiff is only proceeding with his claims for violation of 15 U.S.C. §§ 1692c(a)(1) and 1692c(a)(3). See Docket No. 25 at 1; see also Docket No. 23 at 12 ("[T]his Final Pretrial Order will control the subsequent course of this action and the trial. . . . The pleadings will be deemed merged herein."). The parties agree that "all other claims addressed in Defendant's Motion for and Brief in Support of Summary Judgement are deemed moot." Docket No. 25 at 1. Therefore, the Court only addresses plaintiff's § 1692c(a)(1) and § 1692c(a)(3) claims.
Section 1692c(a)(1) of Title 15 of the United States Code provides as follows:
Plaintiff admits that defendant did not call him outside of the presumptively convenient times provided in § 1692c(a)(1). See Sigala v. Arrow Financial Services, LLC, 2007 WL 642955, at *5 (S.D. Cal. Feb. 22, 2007) ("A time is presumed to be convenient if made between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m."). Nor does plaintiff dispute that defendant would have no basis to know that calling him at work was inconvenient until it was informed that such was the case. Furthermore, in response to defendant's motion for summary judgment, plaintiff does not cite § 1692c(a)(1) as a "relevant" provision, see Docket No. 18 at 4, and thereafter limits his arguments to § 1692c(a)(3). See id. at 7-8 (presenting arguments limited to the subject matter of § 1692c(a)(3) and summarizing those arguments as asserting a violation of "§1692(3)(a)(c)"). Plaintiff may not simply rest upon the allegation in the Final Pretrial Order that "Defendant violated Fair Debt Collection Practices Act at § 1692c(a)(1), by calling Plaintiff at a place and time known to be inconvenient to consumer (his place of work after he specifically told the debt collector not to call him there)." Docket No. 23 at 2; see Conkleton v. Zavaras, No. 08-cv-02612-WYD-MEH, 2010 WL 3002048, at *2 (D. Colo. May 24, 2010) (a party responding to a properly supported motion for summary judgment "may not rest on the allegations contained in the pleadings, but must respond with specific facts showing a genuine factual issue for trial") (citing Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(e); Hysten v. Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Ry. Co., 296 F.3d 1177, 1180 (10th Cir. 2002)). The Court, therefore, will grant defendant summary judgment on plaintiff's claims pursuant to § 1692c(a)(1) of the FDCPA and § 12-14-105(1)(a) of the CFDCPA.
The claims that remain are plaintiff's claims pursuant to § 1692c(a)(3) of the FDCPA and § 12-14-105(1)(c) of the CFDCPA. Section 1692c(a)(3) prohibits contacting a consumer regarding a debt without consent "at the consumer's place of employment if the debt collector knows or has reason to know that the consumer's employer prohibits the consumer from receiving such communication." 15 U.S.C. § 1692c(a)(3); see Colo Rev. Stat. § 12-14-105(1)(c) (same). Plaintiff contends that defendant violated § 1692c(a)(3) by calling him at work after he told a representative of defendant that he could not talk to him at work.
Docket No. 17-1 at 14 (Sirovatka Depo. at 55 l. 25-56 l.14.).
Defendant argues that this evidence is insufficient to survive summary judgment because plaintiff is "unable to recall a specific date for any phone call he received." Docket No. 17 at 9. Defendant further points out that plaintiff recalls that the phone calls occurred in October 2010 when defendant's account notes indicate that the calls did not commence until November 2010. See Docket No. 20 at 6 ("Without corroborating phone records or specific evidence, Plaintiff's self-serving testimony does not create a genuine issue of fact."). The Court does not agree with defendant that plaintiff's testimony is "vague" or insufficiently "specific." Plaintiff clearly answered "yes" to a question specifically framed to address the relevant legal issue in his § 1692c(a)(3) claim.
Defendant further argues that plaintiff "cannot provide evidence to corroborate his testimony," Docket No. 17 at 9, and that the "self-serving" nature of the testimony renders it inadequate to survive summary judgment, citing Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242 (1986).
As a final note, plaintiff named ten unidentified defendants in his amended complaint. See Docket No. 6 at 2, ¶ 6 ("Does 1-10 (the `Collectors') are individual collectors employed by Budget and whose identities are currently unknown to the Plaintiff. One or more of the Collectors may be joined as parties once their identities are disclosed through discovery."). Plaintiff has not amended his complaint to identify any of the Collectors. Nor has he apparently served any of these individuals. Discovery is now closed in this case, and plaintiff has had more than ample time to name and serve these individuals. Therefore, the Court will dismiss all of plaintiff's claims against the unidentified defendants. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(m) (providing for dismissal without prejudice for failure to serve a defendant in a timely fashion); Roper v. Grayson, 81 F.3d 124, 126 (10th Cir. 1996) (observing that dismissal may be appropriate when unnamed defendants remain unidentified for a lengthy period of time).
For the foregoing reasons, it is