Compliance

A District Court judge in Georgia has granted summary judgment in part and denied it in part in a lawsuit filed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau against a group of individuals and companies for engaging in a “robocall phantom debt collection scheme.” The case, which was originally filed in …

The Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has affirmed a lower court’s ruling that a mortgage statement is not the same as a communication from a debt collector and that the statements violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act because they attempted to collect on a debt that was …

The Arkansas state Senate has passed a bill that would make spoofing a phone number a felony offense punishable by up to six years in prison and a fine of $10,000. The bill — Senate Bill 514 — passed unanimously in the Senate and now moves to the state House …

State lawmakers in New York are taking another crack at enacting legislation aimed at eliminating robocalls, but this time are trying a different strategy. Along with bolstering the fines that could be assessed on companies or individuals found to be placing illegal robocalls, the proposed legislation would require carriers to …

A District Court judge in Florida has granted in part and denied in part a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed against a company accusing it of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by using a ringless voicemail platform from Stratics Networks to leave telemarketing-related voicemails on the cell phones …

A District Court judge in Illinois partially denied summary judgment against a defendant that is being sued for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by placing 20 calls during a two-month period in attempts to reach someone else. A copy of the ruling in the case go Gailya …

A hearing has been scheduled for today for the Pensions, Investments, and Financial Services Committee of the Texas House of Representatives to discuss a slate of bills, including House Bill 996, which seeks to limit the period of time in which a debt buyer may initiate a legal action or …

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act will be front-and-center before the Supreme Court today, but only as a pawn in a more existential discussion about whether courts have a requirement to accept how a regulator interprets a statute. PDR Network v. Carlton & Harris Chiropractic will be argued before the Supreme …

The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday overruled a lower court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendant after it was accused of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act because debt collectors hired by a company it had placed the accounts with attempted to contact …

An “intermittent” employee who worked as a collector and trained others to scam individuals out of more than $3 million in payments has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and is now facing up to 20 years in prison. Shauniqua Rodriguez, 40, of Niagara Falls, N.Y., pleaded guilty …