Compliance

What? A District Court judge in New Jersey ruling that a collection agency did not violate the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by failing to explicitly indicate that a dispute had to be filed in writing? Say it isn’t so. Following a number of cases in which the defendant was …

One of the five commissioners on the Federal Communications Commission has written a letter to 14 different phone carriers, seeking details on how each plans to roll out their call blocking services to customers and whether the carriers plan to offer the service for free or charge for it. Geoffrey …

A law firm fighting a Civil Investigative Demand from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to appeal a ruling that the agency’s leadership structure is constitutional to the Supreme Court, the firm announced in a filing with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday. Last month, the Ninth Circuit …

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A group of 21 Senators have written a letter to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, urging it to reconsider its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking related to debt collection, arguing that moving forward with what it proposed will “only exacerbate and increase troubling harassment tactics,” according to a published report. Of …

In a move that should come as a surprise to nobody, the Federal Communications Commission yesterday approved a Declaratory Order that gives carriers and consumers more power to automatically block incoming calls, which could reduce the number of unwanted robocalls while also possibly intertwining legitimate calls in that net. In …

For the second time in two days, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court’s decision in favor of a collector that was sued for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. This time, the court ruled on two consolidated class-action suits that the collector did …

Robocalls cost consumers $3 billion a year in lost time alone, the chief economist and chief technology officer from the Federal Communications Commission revealed yesterday, as the agency gets set to vote today on a proposal that would give carriers and consumers more power to block automated calls, be they …

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that the oversight of not mentioning in a collection letter that disputing a debt had to be made in writing does not rise to the level of suffering an injury under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and affirmed a lower court’s …

A District Court judge 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 to the plaintiff after she had contacted the original creditors and revoked the right to be contacted. A copy of the ruling …