Daily Digest – March 15. Appeals Court Overturns Dismissal of FDCPA Class-Action; Eleventh Circuit to Reconsider Salcedo

APPEALS COURT OVERTURNS DISMISSAL OF FDCPA CLASS-ACTION, LEAVES SAME CASE BEFORE TWO DIFFERENT JUDGES

• It definitely seems like more of an “inside baseball” type of ruling, but the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has overturned the dismissal of a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case — in which three separate appeals were filed — leaving the same case pending before two different judges in the same district and asking them to “sort out” how the cases should proceed.
• More details here.

ELEVENTH CIRCUIT GRANTS EN BANC REHEARING TO DETERMINE IF SALCEDO SHOULD BE OVERTURNED

• For years, the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has been an outlier among its brethren, holding that an individual who received a single — unwanted — text message lacked standing to sue under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act because he did not suffer a concrete injury. That ruling is now going under the microscope, after the Eleventh Circuit granted an en banc rehearing in Drazen v. Pinto.
• More details here.

WYOMING ENACTS LAW DEFINING DEBT BUYERS, WILL BE REQUIRED TO OBTAIN LICENSES

• In a development that was first pointed out by the team at Troutman Pepper, the Governor of Wyoming has signed a bill into law that requires debt buyers to be licensed as collection agencies starting later this year.
• More details here.

23 COMPANIES SEEKING COLLECTION TALENT

• Companies like Credit One Bank, Stellantis Financial Services, Harvest Strategy Group, ProCollect, and LendingClub are among those looking to fill vacancies in their collection operations.
• The job listings are great for those looking for work and are also great tools for companies to use as sources for ideas about what to include in their own job descriptions and to see how other companies write their job ads.
• More details here.

NEW LIFE CHURCH HOSTS FREE FINANCIAL LITERACY SERIES

• New Life Church, Kissimmee, Florida, hosted the first session March 11^th at 7 P.M. in a series focusing on Financial Literacy for the Central Florida area as well as online through Zoom.  Presenting was Matt Kiefer, Chief Officer of Information, Compliance and Development at The Preferred Group of Tampa, a veteran in the account receivables recovery industry.
• More details here.

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