GOV’T, TRADE GROUPS ON SAME SIDE IN BRIEFS FILED WITH SUPREME COURT IN FDCPA SOL CASE
- The industry’s three major trade groups and the government of the United States each filed amicus briefs with the Supreme Court late last week in Rotkiske v. Klemm, a case that will be heard in October and seek to determine with the one-year statute of limitations to file a claim alleging violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act begins — when the violation occurs or when the individual notices that the violation has occurred.
SCHOOL DISTRICT THREATENS FOSTER CARE OVER UNPAID SCHOOL LUNCH DEBTS
- A school district in Pennsylvania is coming under fire for sending a letter to parents saying their kids would be taken away from them and placed into foster care if their unpaid lunch debts were not paid, according to a published report.
JUDGE APPOINTS MASTER TO REVIEW $4M TCPA SETTLEMENT
- A District Court judge in Pennsylvania has appointed a former state Supreme Court justice as master in a case to determine whether a proposed $4 million settlement in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act case is sufficient.
EQUIFAX NEARS $700M DEAL TO SETTLE BREACH INVESTIGATIONS: REPORT
- A deal could be announced as early as today that Equifax will pay as much as $700 million to settle investigations from the Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and state Attorneys General stemming from a 2017 data breach that exposed the personal information of nearly 150 million individuals.
COMPLIANCE DIGEST – JULY 22
- Click here to read this week’s Compliance Digest, sponsored by Applied Innovation. You’ll get insights from 10 different compliance experts — Scott Wortman, Joann Needleman, Dennis Barton, Judd Peak, Lindsay Demaree, Michael Klutho, Helen Mac Murray, Virginia Bell Flynn, Brent Yarborough, and Matt Kiefer — on important compliance topics, such as advocates seeking an extension on the comment period over the CFPB’s proposed debt collection rule, candid remarks from a judge in an FDCPA case, and where the FDCPA may not be a strict liability statute. You’re not going to get that kind of varied perspective anywhere else.
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