Compliance

The Supreme Court has set a date for when it will hear arguments in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case regarding when the clock on its one-year statute of limitations begins. Arguments in Rotkiske v. Klemm will be heard on Wednesday, Oct. 16. The Supreme Court had agreed in …

President Trump yesterday signed into a law a bill that aims to overhaul the Internal Revenue Service, including which of the tax agency’s unpaid accounts are placed with one of four private collection agencies. The Taxpayer First Act of 2019 establishes the creation of an independent appeals office within the …

A District Court judge in Michigan has denied a motion to certify a class action against a defendant that was sued for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by including language in a collection letter mentioning that late fees and interest may alter the total amount owed. A copy …

The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has overturned a lower court’s decision that the federal Higher Education Act exempts companies servicing student loans from claims that those companies violated state law. A copy of the ruling in the case of Nelson v. Great Lakes Educational Loan Services, Inc., …

The men behind Hylan Asset Management have agreed to pay $675,575 in fines and shut down the company after being accused last year of buying and selling millions of dollars in fake debt portfolios and Worldwide Processing Group LLP, one of the agencies used by Hylan to collect on its …

Arguments were heard yesterday before a panel of judges in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Dinaples v. MRS BPO, in which it was alleged that the defendant violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by including a Quick Response, or QR, Code in a collection …

As noted by the team at Ballard Spahr, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has filed its first amicus brief in the Kraninger era, in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. The case — Bender v. Elmore & Throop, P.C. — deals with …

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The truth, at least from the plaintiff in this particular case, set the defendant free. A District Court judge in New York has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss after it was sued for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act for including language about the amount owed possibly …

The Federal Trade Commission, in conjunction with 25 federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, announced a crackdown on illegal robocalls yesterday, bringing 87 different enforcement actions in what the agency calls “Operation Call it Quits.” The FTC launched four new lawsuits against alleged perpetrators of illegal robocalls — Media …