Compliance

The Federal Trade Commission yesterday announced the launch of Operation Corrupt Collector, a “crackdown” on collection operations that engage in abusive or harassing practices while also attempting to collect on debts that do not exist. More than 50 state and federal law enforcement partners are participating with the FTC on …

A District Court judge in North Carolina has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss after it was sued for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, ruling that it can not be held liable if someone else with the same name, living at the same address, opened a summons …

The Federal Communications Commission yesterday announced the adoption of a number of new rules aimed at getting voice service providers to have STIR/SHAKEN protocols ready by the agency’s deadline of June 30, 2021, while also prohibiting those providers from adding line-item charges to customers’ bills for the caller ID technology. …

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the dismissal of a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case in which the plaintiff alleged that a pair of disclosures in a collection letter were misleading, saying that one of the disclosures did the opposite of what the plaintiff alleged and the …

In a case that was defended by Rick Perr of Kaufman Dolowich and Voluck, a District Court judge in New York has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment in a class-action lawsuit after it was accused of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by including references to interest …

In a case that was first spotlighted by Manny Newburger and Nabil Foster of Barron & Newburger, a District Court judge in New York has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss after it was sued for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by allegedly overshadowing the validation notice in …

The Governor of California has signed into law a pair of bills that will impact the future of collections in The Golden State — one bill will require collectors to obtain licenses in order to operate and the other will create a state equivalent of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. …

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The Attorney General of New York has filed a lawsuit and obtained a temporary restraining order shutting down a collection operation that allegedly used a call spoofing service to impersonate government officials and made fraudulent threats to the individuals and their friends and family members. The suit named a number …

President Trump on Saturday nominated Amy Coney Barrett to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court. Judge Barrett has been sitting on the bench for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals since 2017. With the Supreme Court set to hear arguments in a number …