BEDARD CONTINUES BREAKDOWN OF VALIDATION INFORMATION DISCLOSURES
- As discussed last week, there are four pieces of information that make up what the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau refers to as “validation information” in Regulation F. They are: debt collection communication disclosures, information about the debt, information about consumer protections, and information about how the consumer can respond to the letter. In the newest episode of “You Wanted a Rule, You Got a Rule,” John Bedard of Bedard Law Group starts a series of discussions about each of those four categories, beginning with debt communication disclosures.
WDNY JUDGE GRANTS MOTION TO COMPEL IN FDCPA CASE OVER ALLEGED FALSE STATEMENTS
- A District Court judge in New York has rejected a plaintiff’s legal theory that a judgment obtained in a collection suit extinguishes the underlying debt and thus the underlying agreement, and instead granted a defendant’s motion to compel arbitration and dismissed a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act class-action lawsuit without prejudice.
WATERS SEEKS FORECLOSURE MORATORIUM EXTENSION AS CFPB PREPS RULE
- Even though the COVID-19 pandemic may be close to ending, that does not mean that consumer protections put into place during the pandemic are on the way out, too. In this case, protections put in place to keep renters and homeowners in their residences and not face evictions or foreclosures may continue through the end of this year, according to a number of published reports.
WAITING GAME SURROUNDING FLORIDA’S TCPA BILL CONTINUES
- A lot of eyes that worry about autodialers and telephone calls are fixed firmly on The Sunshine State, wondering if its version of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act will go into effect next week or not.
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