N.D. AG BANS UNLICENSED COLLECTORS
- A trio of debt collectors have been ordered to stop collecting debts by the Attorney General of North Dakota because they did not have the proper licenses and were harassing individuals when trying to collect.
JUDGE GRANTS MTD IN FDCPA CASE BECAUSE PLAINTIFF WASN’T SPECIFIC ENOUGH ABOUT INJURY
- A District Court judge in Georgia has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss and offered a great comparison a technical violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to pick-up basketball after a collection law firm was sued for allegedly violating the FDCPA by accidentally mailing documents in a separate collection suit 20 days later than it indicated.
APPEALS COURT AFFIRMS JUDGMENT IN FCRA SUIT
- The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has affirmed a lower court’s decision in a Fair Credit Reporting Act case because the plaintiff chose to file suit instead of notifying the credit reporting agency and furnisher about the accuracy of the date in which a Chapter 13 bankruptcy filing was being reported.
ACA INTERNATIONAL ANNOUNCES NEW BOARD MEMBERS, OFFICERS
- Congratulations goes out to a quartet of individuals who should be very recognizable names to the audience of AccountsRecovery.net for winning seats on the Board of Directors for ACA International. Dennis Barton, LaDonna Bohling, Michael Klutho, and Brian Watkins will all serve three-year terms on the board, the association announced yesterday.
WORTH NOTING: How people are connecting and staying in touch during the pandemic … A freshman Congressman from Kansas has been charged with three felonies … A lot of people are putting off financial milestones because of COVID-19 … People who social distance are more likely to be smarter, according to research … Are you ready for another streaming service? … How the pandemic is changing eating in the office … People are still very afraid of going to the hospital … How wearing masks will help us get the pandemic under control a lot faster.
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