Compliance

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 by not quoting the statutory dispute notice language in a collection letter. A copy of the ruling in the case of Cavin v. …

In what is likely the most comprehensive comment that will be submitted, ACA International laid out broad support for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s proposed debt collection rule, but identified several changes that will “impose significant burdens” without “any quantitative evidence of consumer harm in those areas.” The 154-page comment …

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced yesterday that it will continue to publish its database of consumer complaints, but announced that it will make some changes to how the data is presented, which appeared to keep both consumer advocates and participants in the credit and collection industry happy. Speaking at …

The Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has reversed a lower court’s ruling that a collection agency was not obligated to pay a “finder’s fee” to a networking company after winning a contract to work with the Department of Education. A copy of the ruling in the case of …

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau yesterday admitted that its leadership structure is unconstitutional, agreeing with a law firm suing the agency that the Supreme Court should hear arguments on the topic. A copy of the brief, filed by the Department of Justice on behalf of the CFPB, in the case …

As first pointed out by Eric Troutman at TCPAWorld.com, the Federal Communications Commission has delayed the implementation of its reassigned number database to January 2020, which is four months less than the group working on the database had asked for. Last December, the FCC approved the creation of a reassigned …

An $11 million settlement has been preliminarily approved by a District Court judge in Florida related to a Telephone Consumer Protection Act case that was brought against John C. Heath Attorney At Law, PLLC, more commonly known as Lexington Law Firm. A copy of the recommendation can be accessed by …

A new law generating consternation in California that has the potential to spread to other states across the country could impact the credit and collection industry as well as the call center industry, depending on how individuals are classified by the companies for which they work. Assembly Bill 5, known …

A District Court judge in Pennsylvania has denied a defendant’s motion to dismiss and granted a motion to certify a class in a case in which the defendant is accused of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by sending deposition notices to individuals with default judgments entered against them …

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