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JUDGE GRANTS MSJ IN FDCPA CLASS ACTION OVER INTEREST, FEES DISCLOSURE IN LETTER In a case that was defended by Rick Perr of Kaufman Dolowich and Voluck, a District Court judge in New York has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment in a class-action lawsuit after it was accused …

A data breach that was the result of a phishing attack and went undetected for ninth months, compromising the personal information of more than 10 million individuals has cost a health insurance provider nearly $7 million to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) Act. The …

Even rich people are having problems paying their bills, according to a new report released by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Looking at data that from a previously conducted survey, researchers at the CFPB concluded that 40% of all individuals had difficulty paying a bill or covering an expense in …

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the dismissal of a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case in which the plaintiff alleged that a pair of disclosures in a collection letter were misleading, saying that one of the disclosures did the opposite of what the plaintiff alleged and the …

In a case that was defended by Rick Perr of Kaufman Dolowich and Voluck, a District Court judge in New York has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment in a class-action lawsuit after it was accused of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by including references to interest …

LOOKING AT AMY CONEY BARRETT’S FDCPA, TCPA RULINGS President Trump on Saturday nominated Amy Coney Barrett to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court. Judge Barrett has been sitting on the bench for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals since 2017. With the Supreme …

In a case that was first spotlighted by Manny Newburger and Nabil Foster of Barron & Newburger, a District Court judge in New York has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss after it was sued for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by allegedly overshadowing the validation notice in …

The Governor of California has signed into law a pair of bills that will impact the future of collections in The Golden State — one bill will require collectors to obtain licenses in order to operate and the other will create a state equivalent of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. …

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The Attorney General of New York has filed a lawsuit and obtained a temporary restraining order shutting down a collection operation that allegedly used a call spoofing service to impersonate government officials and made fraudulent threats to the individuals and their friends and family members. The suit named a number …

President Trump on Saturday nominated Amy Coney Barrett to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court. Judge Barrett has been sitting on the bench for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals since 2017. With the Supreme Court set to hear arguments in a number …

JUDGE DENIES MTD IN FDCPA OVERSHADOWING CLASS ACTION A District Court judge in New York has denied a defendant’s motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by allegedly overshadowing the validation notice when it made a reference to initiating “a review of …

A group of 21 consumer advocacy groups yesterday sent a letter to Kathleen Kraninger, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, asking the regulator to reconsider guidance it issued earlier in the coronavirus pandemic that said it would be flexible in giving furnishers more than the required 30 days …

Trying to make heads or tails of how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting the volume of lawsuits filed against collection agencies continues to baffle, according to the latest data released yesterday by WebRecon. In July, where the volume of lawsuits alleging violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Fair …

A District Court judge in New York has denied a defendant’s motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by allegedly overshadowing the validation notice when it made a reference to initiating “a review of the inquiry” in a collection letter. A copy …