Compliance

A District Court judge in Kansas has granted a petition from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to enforce an administrative order that assessed more than $50 million in fines and restitution against an online lender and its chief executive, even though the order has been appealed to the Court of …

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A District Court judge in Mississippi has granted a defendant’s motion for sanctions and ordered the plaintiff’s attorneys to repay the defendant for 16 months of legal fees in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case. A copy of the ruling in the case of Gordon v. United Medical Recovery …

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced today that Regulation F will go into effect on November 30 as originally planned and will not delay the effective date of the rule until January 2022. “The CFPB has now determined that such an extension is unnecessary,” it said in a press release. …

A District Court judge in Washington has mostly denied a defendant’s motion to dismiss — she did grant it on one count of the claim — in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case in which the debt collector was accused of attempting to collect a debt that the plaintiff …

Senate Republicans are continuing to try and get answers about whether the leadership of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau potentially violated civil service protections by trying to get career employees at the Bureau to resign so that they could be replaced by “handpicked loyalists.” After not getting any answers from …

Maybe this time, things will be different. For not the first time, a bill has been introduced in Congress that seeks to change the leadership structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to a multi-member commission from a single director organizational structure. The bill will be introduced by Rep. Blaine …

The model validation notice represents a complete top-down overhaul of the validation notice that debt collectors have been sending since the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act was enacted back when disco was king. Among two of the major changes to the information that collectors will now be required to include …

At the end of the day, all you can control are your own actions. If you ask someone to do something and they don’t do it, is that your fault? A District Court judge in Michigan opted to place blame where it lies, which was not with a collection agency …

A hearing is scheduled for this afternoon in before a federal judge in Nevada courtroom attorneys representing a dozen collection agencies and ACA International will seek to obtain a temporary restraining order blocking legislation that governs how medical debts are collected in the state. The law went into effect on …