BEDARD DISCUSSES ITEMIZATION DATE, OTHER VALIDATION INFORMATION DEFINITIONS
- If there is one particular component of Regulation F — the Debt Collection Rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — that has tripped up and confused more people in the months since the rule was released, it is the itemization date that will need to be included in the validation letter that collectors send to consumers. In this episode of “You Wanted a Rule, You Got a Rule,” John Bedard of Bedard Law Group discusses the five different options provided by the CFPB that collectors can choose from for their itemization date, along with the other definitions that need to be understood in order to compliantly communicate validation information to consumers once the rule goes into effect.
BAKER’S DOZEN OF NEW AMICUS BRIEFS FILED IN SUPPORT OF HUNSTEIN RE-HEARING PETITION
- If there was any doubt over the importance of the Hunstein case to the accounts receivable management industry, and to the camaraderie and support that companies in this industry have for one another, and that every lawyer in the country was working over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, look no further than the amicus briefs that were filed in the past few days supporting the defendant’s petition for an en banc re-hearing in the case.
WDWI JUDGE DISMISSES FDCPA CASE FOR LACK OF STANDING
- A District Court judge in Wisconsin has dismissed a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case for lack of standing, following a ruling in a similar case that was issued recently by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
JUDGE GRANTS MSJ FOR DEFENDANT IN TCPA CASE OVER COLLECTION CALLS
- A District Court judge in North Carolina has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act case after it was sued for allegedly placing “several” hundred calls to the plaintiff’s cell phone in an effort to attempt to collect a debt, ruling that the technology used by the defendant did not meet the definition of an automatic telephone dialing system, but also that the plaintiff consented to receiving the calls in the first place.
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