Daily Digest – June 28. CFPB Files First Amicus Brief — in FDCPA Case; Report Says Hospital Network ‘Relentlessly Sues The Poor’

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CFPB FILES FIRST AMICUS BRIEF, SUPPORTING PLAINTIFF IN FDCPA SOL CASE

  • As noted by the team at Ballard Spahr, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has filed its first amicus brief in the Kraninger era, in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

REPORT PUTS HOSPITAL NETWORK THAT ‘RELENTLESSLY SUES THE POOR’ UNDER SPOTLIGHT

  • A nonprofit system of five hospitals in Memphis is under the spotlight this week, after a published report revealed the organization has filed more than 8,000 lawsuits against former patients for unpaid debts in the past five years, including employees who work at the facilities.

APPEALS COURT HEARS ARGUMENTS IN QR CODE CASE

  • Arguments were heard yesterday before a panel of judges in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in which it was alleged that the defendant violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by including a Quick Response, or QR, Code in a collection letter sent to the plaintiff.

COMPLIANCE DIGEST – JUNE 28

  • Click here to read this week’s Compliance Digest, sponsored by Applied Innovation. You’ll get insights from five different compliance experts — Ethan Ostroff, Mitch Williamson, Rick Perr, June Coleman, Boyd Gentry, Nicole Strickler, and Helen Mac Murray — on important compliance topics, such as the bona fide error defense, using a local number to make collection calls, an $11 million settlement in a TCPA case, and new robocall bills introduced in Congress. You’re not going to get that kind of varied perspective anywhere else.

WORTH NOTING: Takeaways from the second Democratic debate … People are taking the sporks from the new Star Wars area at Disneyland and selling them online … Arby’s sees your plant-based meats and raises you a meat-based plant … How to hack the best hotel rate … The worst county to live in all 50 states … Fewer people are planning on taking a vacation this year … Financial worries are keeping people up at night … The worst summer movies ever … People were dying to stay in a Taco Bell themed hotel.

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