Compliance

A number of trade groups, including ACA International, met with representatives of the Federal Communications Commission last week to discuss the agency’s efforts ensure that legitimate calls are not either blocked or mislabeled by carriers, and, when they are, to provide notification to the callers in real-time. Also meeting with …

A District Court judge in Pennsylvania has become the latest to tackle the issue of whether a plaintiff has standing to sue when claiming certain violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, partially denying the defendant’s motion to dismiss in a class-action suit. A copy of the ruling in the …

The Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has upheld a lower court’s denial of class certification in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act lawsuit in which the plaintiff alleged to have received more than 200 robocalls from an auto lender, agreeing with the lower court that the plaintiff did not …

A District Court judge in New York has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss after it was sued for violating a number of provisions of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, such as including multiple addresses in a collection letter and because he received two letters that each included a …

Spoofing a phone number is bad. Spoofing the phone number of your “bitter” competitor and then making more than 47,000 pre-recorded robocalls is even worse. Which is why the Federal Communications Commission has imposed a fine of nearly $10 million on Kenneth Moser for intentionally trying to harm the business …

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday announced it had filed a lawsuit against a debt settlement company and its owners for allegedly taking money from customers before achieving the results it promised and deceiving individuals about “material aspects” of the services it provided. A copy of the complaint, filed …

Without ever mentioning its name, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on Friday issued a proposed rule that would put an end to Operation Choke Point by calling on banks to ensure provide access to services and capital based on the risks of the particular client and not …

A District Court judge in Florida has denied a defendant’s motion to dismiss after it was sued for allegedly violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act, ruling that the plaintiff met the threshold for stating a claim by saying that the furnisher failed to conduct a reasonable investigation after it was …

The latest chapter in the case of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Seila Law took place yesterday, as both sides made their arguments before a panel of judges from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which will determine whether the law firm has to comply with a civil investigative demand …