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CFPB FILES FIRST AMICUS BRIEF UNDER MULVANEY, WADES INTO APPEALS COURT CASE ON EMAILED VALIDATION NOTICE
- It appears as thought it took a debt collection case to get the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection to stand up and file its first amicus brief since Mick Mulvaney took over the agency. The CFPB waded in and filed a brief in support of a plaintiff who is suing a collection agency for allegedly violating the FDCPA because she was sent a validation notice via email instead of via traditional mail. The brief was filed with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and will pit the bureau against ACA International, which filed an amicus brief two months ago on behalf of the plaintiff.
PROFESSIONAL PLAINTIFF KNOWN FOR SUING COLLECTION AGENCIES LOSES TCPA APPEAL
- A professional plaintiff known for filing lawsuits against collection agencies has lost a case before the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit after it upheld a lower court’s ruling that a company which contacted him could not have violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act because it was acting on behalf of the federal government.
SUBWAY SEEKS TO APPEAL TCPA RULING TO SUPREME COURT
- Restaurant chain Subway has asked the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to stay a ruling overturning a lower court’s decision so that it can file an appeal to the Supreme Court. Subway wants to appeal the Ninth Circuit’s ruling, which said that promotional text messages sent from T-Mobile offering free sandwiches from the chain were a violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and that Subway is not allowed to compel arbitration under the wireless agreement between T-Mobile and the plaintiffs.
CONVOKE NAMED ONE OF VIRGINIA’S FANTASTIC 50 COMPANIES FOR 2018
- Convoke, a leader in SaaS solutions for the debt collection market, has been named one of Virginia’s Fantastic 50 Companies by the Virginia Chamber of Commerce for the second year in a row.
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