FDCPA

The Court of Appeals for the State of Washington has reversed a lower court’s ruling and has held a debt collector vicariously liable for the creditor refusing to return an individual’s security deposit when she abandoned the lease for her townhome and required the collector to pay attorney fees and …

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In a case that was defended by Cooper Walker at Frost Echols, a District Court judge in Texas has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case after the plaintiff admitted during a deposition that he never asked the defendant to stop calling …

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A District Court judge in New Jersey has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss, ruling that a collector saying it “was willing to accept” an amount to settle a debt is not confusing to a least sophisticated debtor regarding the identity of the creditor to whom the debt was owed, …

Every time inaccurate information is furnished to a credit reporting agency constitutes a separate and discrete violation, ruled a District Court judge in Ohio, who denied a defendant’s partial motion to dismiss a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case that it argued was time-barred because the one-year statute of limitations …

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If you are furnishing information to credit reporting agencies — especially within the Seventh Circuit — you better make sure that you haven’t received any disputes in the day or two prior to submitting updates to the CRAs. A District Court judge in Illinois has denied a defendant’s motion for …

A District Court judge in North Carolina has granted a defendant’s motion for relief from judgment on the grounds that a default judgment obtained by the plaintiff in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case is void due to lack of service of process. A copy of the ruling in …

A Magistrate Court judge in Puerto Rico has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss after it was sued for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act because it sent a letter to an individual attempting to collect on a debt that had been included in a petition for bankruptcy, ruling …