Compliance

A District Court judge in Illinois has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment after it was sued for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act because it did not mark an account as disputed after the plaintiff allegedly faxed her dispute during the validation period. A copy of the …

The lawyer picked to defend the leadership structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau before the Supreme Court is showing that he has completely finished all of the Kool-Aid and will not be soft-playing his arguments. Calling the arguments put forth by Seila Law that the CFPB’s leadership structure “remarkably …

A District Court judge in Virginia has denied a defendant’s motion to stay proceedings after it was sued for violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by allegedly making debt collection calls using an automated telephone dialing system after the plaintiff had revoked consent to be contacted. The defendant was seeking …

The Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has upheld a summary judgment ruling in favor of a defendant that was sued for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act because it did not provide the proper documentation to verify an account that had been disputed and that was …

The state of Washington legislature has re-introduced a privacy bill that is being labeled as the “most comprehensive” state privacy legislation in the country, even more so than the California Consumer Privacy Act. Along with many of the protection and provisions of the CCPA, the WPA would enumerate certain rights …

A District Court judge in Massachusetts has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment after it was sued for allegedly violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by placing calls to a cell phone number that had been reassigned to someone who had not consented to being contacted by the defendant, …

Using a recent settlement with a debt collector as an example of how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has created a “perverse incentive for companies to violate the law,” a group of 15 Senators to call for an investigation into the CFPB’s restitution penalties levied against companies found to have …

A published report blasts the credit and collection industry, especially those collecting medical debts, for suing individuals with unpaid debts that should have been covered by workers’ compensation insurance and infers that those doing the suing are knowingly taking the risk, expecting that the individual is not going to do …

The Supreme Court on Friday announced it had granted a petition from the U.S. government to hear arguments in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act case regarding an exemption that allows companies collecting debts on behalf of the federal government to contact individuals on their cell phones using an automated telephone …

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