Compliance

A bipartisan bill has been introduced in the Senate that would give the Federal Communications Commission the authority to allow carriers to automatically block calls believed to be “highly likely to be unlawful” while also providing a safe harbor to carriers in the event a legitimate call is accidentally blocked. …

The Federal Communications Commission last week voted to approve a proposed rule that will extend prohibitions against robocalls that were passed last year in the Ray Baum’s Act to text messages and international calls. Previously, the anti-spoofing prohibitions in the Ray Baum’s Act only applied to domestic robocalls. “Whether it’s …

In what may be the most closely parsed sentence in any collection letter ever, a District Court judge in New York has partially granted and partially denied a defendant’s motion to dismiss after it was sued for sending a collection letter that included the statement, “Synchrony Bank may continue to …

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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 by sending a letter that referenced a “current balance,” even though the balance could not increase. Similar to what he did in another …

A District Court judge in Colorado has granted summary judgment in favor of a defendant that was accused of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, even though the plaintiff’s call records did not show any calls from the defendant and the defendant did not even have the account when some …

A trio of Democratic Senators have introduced a bill in Congress that would remove an exemption for telephone carriers from having to comply with the Federal Trade Commission Act and open them up to investigation for helping facilitate illegal robocalls. The Protection From Robocalling Act of 2019, S.B. 2349, was …

The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has ordered that all of the lawsuits that have been filed related to a data breach at American Medical Collection Agency be consolidated into one case that will be heard before Judge Madeline Cox Arleo of the District of New Jersey. To date, …

A District Court judge has used a collection industry defendant’s favorite word in granting a motion to dismiss: frivolous, after the defendant was accused of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by misrepresenting the amount of attorney involvement in a collection letter. A copy of the ruling in the …

In a non-precedential unpublished opinion, the California Court of Appeals has ruled that the right-to-cure provision in the Rosenthal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act can be applied to alleged violations where the type size of a collection letter is too small, but nonetheless reversed a lower court’s ruling dismissing the …