Complaints Accuse Collectors of Ignoring Requests to Communicate via Specific Channels
- Usually, I look through WebRecon’s database to find a complaint that I think is interesting, noteworthy, or bizarre enough that it bears spotlighting it for the ARM industry. Today, I don’t just bring you one complaint; I bring you two. These are emblematic of a growing number of complaints I am seeing where individuals send notifications to collection operations indicating which communication channels the individuals want collectors to use, only to have the collector send the next communication in a different way.
- More details here
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Judge Grants MTD in FDCPA Class Action Over Credit Reporting Language in Letter
- It is very uncommon for a ruling at the District Court level in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case to not only have a Table of Contents, but one with sections and subsections, even if it is a class action. At the start, that’s a sign that this is not your ordinary ruling. But, in what is good news for the industry, at the end of that 28-page ruling is the judge granting the defendant’s motion to dismiss because the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue.
- More details here.
Bill Introduced in Senate to Criminalize Illegal Robocallers
- A bill has been introduced in the Senate that would criminalize certain provisions of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act while also increasing the maximum financial penalties for violating certain provisions of the Act.
- More details here.
Appeals Court Affirms Dismissal of FDCPA Suit Against Creditor
- As I have stated, on numerous occasions, I am not a lawyer. That being said, this case seems to — to my non-legal eyes — to be something that doesn’t necessarily rise to the level of needing a Court of Appeals to weigh in on, but, hey, they did, so I am going to let you know about it. The Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has affirmed the dismissal of a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case against a creditor, agreeing with the lower court that the creditor is not subject to the statute.
- More details here.
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