Compliance

The fact that an exemption in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act that spares debt collectors attempting to collect on debts owed to the federal government is unconstitutional is not enough to make the entire TCPA unconstitutional, ruled a District Court judge in Massachusetts, who is allowing portions of a class-action …

A handful of consumer groups have submitted an amicus brief and motion for leave to have it entered into the record as the plaintiff in Salcedo v. Hanna seeks to have his case re-heard by the entire Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in an en banc hearing. A panel of …

A District Court judge in Maryland has smacked down a plaintiff, falling short of accusing her of perjury, but questioning her attempts at “justify[ing] her fraudulent conduct,” in granting a defendant’s motion for summary judgment after it was sued for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Fair …

A District Court judge in Kentucky has dismissed claims that a collection law firm violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act when it sued to collect on an unpaid debt, but denied a motion to dismiss over claims that the defendant violated the FDCPA over discrepancies in the amount owed …

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The ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee is seeking information from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau about why individuals who were victimized in a scam by a debt collector are not being afforded the opportunity to receive restitution for what they lost. In a letter to Kathy Kraninger, the …

A District Court judge in California has granted summary judgment in favor of a plaintiff who sued a collection agency for allegedly violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by calling her cell phone 199 times without first obtaining her consent to do so, awarding the plaintiff $300,000 in damages in …

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has filed suit against a collection agency that specializes in collecting in debts on behalf of apartment complexes for violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act and the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act for collecting debts “without a reasonable basis to assert” the debts were valid. …

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court’s dismissal of a suit against a collection agency that was accused of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by referencing a “current balance” in a letter even though the amount owed was static and not going to change. …

A District Court judge in Arizona has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment and agreed to entertain the defendant’s request for its attorney fees and costs to be covered by the plaintiff in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case in which the plaintiff was attempting to hold the …