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Fifth Third Bank is the target of a class-action lawsuit in federal court alleging it has routinely charged overdraft fees in cases when plaintiffs argue those fees should not have been charged.
Fifth Third customers Christy Hunter and Feon Smith-Branch filed the lawsuit Oct. 5 in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati.
Two customers at Fifth Third are suing the bank, accusing it of charging "unconscionable" overdraft fees on debit transactions.
HUNTINGTON â When Betty Jane Cleckley graduated from Douglass High School in Huntington, she had to leave the city to further her education because Marshall University was still segregated. So she left. She earned a bachelorâs degree from Marquette University in 1958 and then a masterâs degree in social work from Smith College. She was awarded a doctorate from Brandeis University and followed that up with a postdoctoral certificate in higher education management from Harvard University. In 1989, she came home after being hired at the university she could not attend. Shortly aft...