JUDGE GRANTS MTD IN FDCPA CASE OVER SETTLEMENT OFFER IN LETTER A District Court judge in Pennsylvania has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss after it was sued for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act because settlement offers mentioned in an initial collection notice allegedly violated the 30-day dispute …
Read More »Daily Digest – May 19. Getting to Know Amy Kennedy of The Intelitech Group; Appeals Court Revives Case for Debt Buyer
GETTING TO KNOW AMY KENNEDY OF THE INTELITECH GROUP If you’re lucky, you have someone in your life who sees things through a different perspective, who always seems to know the right question to ask at the right time, which helps you put a situation into perspective and allows you …
Read More »Daily Digest – May 18. Appeals Court Upholds Ruling for Call Center in Age Discrimination Case; Student Loan Debt Leads to Higher Chance of Heart Disease
APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS RULING IN FAVOR OF CALL CENTER IN AGE DISCRIMINATION CASE The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has upheld a lower court’s summary judgment ruling in favor of a defendant that was sued for violating the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and state law in Texas …
Read More »Daily Digest – May 17. Appeals Court Revives FCRA Case; Judge Partially Dismisses FDCPA Case
APPEALS COURT REVIVES FCRA CASE OVER REASONABLE INVESTIGATION THRESHOLD The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit yesterday reversed a lower court’s summary judgment ruling in favor of a defendant sued for violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act, determining that the “reasonable investigation” it conducted when the plaintiff disputed the …
Read More »Daily Digest – May 16. Judge Grants Motion for Defense in FDCPA Assigned Claim Case; Ariz. AG Gets Judgment Banning Collector
JUDGE GRANTS MOTION FOR DEFENSE IN FDCPA CASE INVOLVING ASSIGNED CLAIM There isn’t much to the ruling in this case, but it does involve a trend that I have been hearing more of in recent months, so I wanted to highlight this in case you haven’t seen it, or have …
Read More »Daily Digest – May 13. Panel Assesses Impact of Inflation and Recession on ARM Industry; Appeals Court Overturns Dismissal of Collection Suit
PANEL ASSESSES IMPACT OF INFLATION AND RECESSION ON ARM INDUSTRY There’s beauty in finding connections that you didn’t know existed. There is the chaos theory analogy, for example, of a butterfly flapping its wings in Central Park, which is why it starts raining across the world in China. You never …
Read More »Daily Digest – May 12. Getting to Know Todd Santa Maria of VoApps; Judge Grants Defendant’s MSJ in FDCPA Class Action
GETTING TO KNOW TODD SANTA MARIA OF VOAPPS DIRECTDROP VOICEMAIL Aside from his questionable taste in whom he admires, everything about Todd Santa Maria shows you how much he cares for the accounts receivable management industry, and those who work in it. It sounds trite when someone is called a …
Read More »Daily Digest – May 11. Judge Denies Motion to Remand, Grants MTD; N.Y. Legislature Passes Medical Debt Collection Bill
JUDGE DENIES MOTION TO REMAND FDCPA CASE BACK TO STATE COURT; GRANTS MTD A District Court judge has denied a plaintiff’s motion to remand a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case back to state court while also granting the defendant’s motion to dismiss, ruling that the plaintiff had standing to …
Read More »Daily Digest – May 10. Judge Awards Plaintiff’s Counsel $206K in FCRA Case; BNPL Healthcare Startup Raises $110M
JUDGE AWARDS PLAINTIFF’S COUNSEL $206K IN FCRA CASE A District Court judge has partially lowered the attorney’s fees in a Fair Credit Reporting Act case, but only by 10%, which kept the total award to more than $206,000, $70,000 more than what the defendant sought to pay. COMPLAINT ACCUSES COLLECTOR …
Read More »Daily Digest – May 9. Judge Rules Debt Not for Personal Use in FDCPA Case; Consumers Still in Good Position to Pay Debts: Encore CEO
JUDGE RULES DEBT NOT FOR PERSONAL USE IN FDCPA CASE I don’t know about you, but with all the times that I have purchased real estate — one, to be exact — I remembered whether I was at the closing or whether I had someone attend for me, and whether …
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