Tag Archives: 1692c(b)

A lawsuit has been filed against a collection agency for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the “debt parking” provisions of Regulation F — in what might be the first such lawsuit filed following the enactment of the debt collection rule last November. A copy of the complaint …

A District Court judge in New Jersey — taking the issue up all on her own — has ruled that a plaintiff lacks standing to sue a collection agency after accusing it of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act because it used multiple addresses in a collection letter and …

A collection agency is being sued for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act because it sent a text message to the plaintiff’s mother — who also had an account placed with the defendant — with the daughter’s name after the mother made a payment on her own account. …

A District Court judge in Washington has denied a defendant’s motion to dismiss after it was sued for allegedly communicating information about a debt with an unauthorized third party that printed and mailed a collection letter to the plaintiff, ruling that the language of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act …

This is one of those articles where the lede gets buried, but I think it’s worth reading all the way to the end, especially if you’re interested in Hunstein-related lawsuits. A District court judge in Illinois has granted a plaintiff’s motion to remand a Hunstein case back to state court, …

A class-action complaint originally filed in state court in Florida has been removed to federal court at the request of the defendant, which is being sued for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act for a number of alleged violations, including not providing a proper end of the validation period …

A District Court judge in New York has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss a Hunstein lawsuit, albeit for lack of standing, because the plaintiff failed to plead that using a letter vendor violated his privacy and that anyone at the vendor reviewed or otherwise saw the plaintiff’s information. A …

A District Court judge in New Jersey has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss four of the five counts it is facing in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act suit after it was accused of disclosing information about the existence of the debt in question to a third party, namely …

A Magistrate judge in New York has recommended that a defendant be found to have violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by making a second location information call to a debtor’s mother and by asking the mother to have her daughter — the debtor — call the defendant back …

When it comes to the Hunstein case, the industry made two steps forward with the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in finally getting the Court to agree to rehear the case, only to have a judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania make everyone take one giant step backward yesterday …