Tag Archives: 1692c(b)

It is short on details, but another Regulation F lawsuit has been filed, this time in California, and, for the first time, it’s accusing a collector of violating the rule’s prohibitions on call frequency. A copy of the complaint in the case of Santander v. General Revenue Corp. can be …

A District Court judge in Kansas has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss a Hunstein case, ruling that the plaintiff lacked standing to sue because she did not suffer a concrete injury when the defendant used a third-party vendor to print and mail a collection letter. A copy of the …

Similar to the named plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit being emblematic of the injuries suffered by everyone in the class, I’m using this case to point out that judges across Florida are granting stays in Hunstein copycat cases in anticipation of the en banc hearing and ruling that will be …

Judge Cathy Seibel of the District Court for the Southern District of New York gets it. Judge Seibel is the latest in a growing line of judges across the country who are ruling that plaintiffs filing Hunstein claims do not have standing to sue in federal court because they did …

A District Court judge in New York has granted a plaintiff’s motion to remand a Hunstein case back to state court, ruling that the plaintiff does not have standing to sue in federal court because the complaint does not allege that the communication of his information by the defendant to …

This is one of those cases where I feel like I need to make the “I’m not a lawyer” disclaimer because, to me, this looks like one of those “good news, bad news” type of cases, but there might be sides to this that I am not seeing. A District …

A District Court judge in Kansas has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case, ruling that the plaintiff lacked standing to sue because she was confused about an alleged discrepancy in the balance of her debt after receiving several collection letters, but, perhaps more …

In a case that is being defended by David Schultz and the team at Hinshaw Culbertson, a District Court judge in Illinois has granted a plaintiff’s motion to remand a Hunstein class action lawsuit back to state court, disagreeing with the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals’s ruling in the case …

A District Court judge in Georgia has dismissed claims that a collector violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by calling the mother of an individual with an unpaid debt more than 15 times after the mother had asked not to be contacted, and that the collector meaningfully disclosed its …

A District Court judge in North Carolina has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss after it was accused of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by leaving a voicemail message on an individual’s cell phone that was overheard by the plaintiff’s sister, ruling that cell phone voicemails are intended …