Compliance

The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday released some of the guidelines that will be used for its Reassigned Number Database, which aims to help callers identify whether a phone number it has for an individual has been reassigned to someone else. One of the key metrics, which has been on …

A published report from West Virginia details a case in which a county judge has issued an emergency order requiring a healthcare provider in the state to release and unfreeze assets which it had seized as part of a garnishment order, ruling that a seizure conducted while courts are closed …

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In a case that was first noted by TCPAWorld, a District Court judge in Rhode Island has dismissed 21 of 22 lawsuits filed by a plaintiff who, for the most part, used each phone call he received from a debt collector to file lawsuits against the company alleging it violated …

Add Washington to the growing list of states and territories that have taken action to regulate debt collection activities in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Gov. Jay Inslee signed a number of executive orders yesterday aimed at protecting consumers and the rights of prisoners and law enforcement. For the …

The Supreme Court announced yesterday that it will hear arguments in a key Telephone Consumer Protection Act case on Wednesday, May 6. Arguments in the case — Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants — were due to be heard this month, but the Supreme Court first postponed oral arguments in …

A District Court judge in Michigan has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment after it was sued for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act because it reported to a credit bureau that the investigation into a disputed debt had been completed even though the plaintiff “still disputed …

The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has affirmed a lower court’s ruling that a defendant did not violate the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act when it sent a letter to an individual in an attempt to collect a time-barred debt, but did not mention the debt was time-barred …

The state of Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation issued guidance yesterday recommending practices that licensed consumer credit companies should putting into place to help individuals dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, including those related to how debts are collected, while Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a separate executive order …

Attorneys general from nearly two dozen states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico wrote a letter yesterday to Kathleen Kraninger, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, requesting that the agency withdraw its guidance for how debts should be reported to the credit bureaus during the COVID-19 pandemic. …