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MASSACHUSETTS SUPREME COURT RULES PASSIVE DEBT BUYERS DON’T NEED COLLECTION LICENSES
- The top state court in Massachusetts – the state’s Supreme Judicial Court – has ruled that a passive debt buyer does not need a debt collector license to operate in that state. The ruling overturns a summary judgment ruling from a lower court in the state which had held that the defendant, LVNV Funding, did need a license under state law to operate as a debt buyer in Massachusetts. The lower court had certified a class action against the defendant.
JUDGE DENIES SUMMARY JUDGMENT REQUESTS FROM BOTH SIDES IN CFPB, WELTMAN CASE
- A federal judge in Ohio has denied requests for summary judgment from both the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Weltman Weinberg & Reis and said that the case must go to trial next month.
SECOND CIRCUIT REVIVES CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT AGAINST COLLECTION AGENCY, FOR THE SECOND TIME
- The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has revived – for the second time – a class-action lawsuit that was filed against a collection agency. The lower court has twice dismissed the suit against the defendant, but has lost both times on appeal. The issue at hand is whether a settlement offer made by a defendant, in this case a collection agency, nullifies a claim made by a plaintiff, even if a judge grants a judgment in favor of the defendant.
‘LIKELY NO FLUKE’ THAT CFPB HAS NOT ISSUED ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS UNDER MULVANEY: REPORT
- The mainstream media is slowly starting to catch on that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau appears to have taken a vow of enforcement inaction following the appointment of Mick Mulvaney as acting director. After averaging between two and four enforcement actions per month under former director Richard Cordray, who left the agency in late November to run for governor of Ohio, the CFPB has taken no enforcement actions in the four-plus months that Mulvaney has been at the helm of the agency.
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