Tag Archives: 1692e

Notifying an individual in a collection letter than not paying a debt may have a negative effect on that person’s credit score does not rise to the level of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, according to a District Court judge in Michigan, especially when the individual’s alleged emotional …

A District Court judge in Alabama has denied a plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment and granted a defendant’s motion on most of the claims it violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act and the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act after it attempted to collect on an unpaid debt related to an …

A District Court judge in Washington has denied a defendant’s motion to dismiss claims it violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act after it was accused of continuing to demand payment and moving forward with a collection lawsuit even though it had been notified by the plaintiff’s attorney that the …

A District Court judge in Washington has partially granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment while denying a plaintiff’s motion for the same ruling in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case in which the defendant attempted to collect a debt from the plaintiff, who claims not to have incurred …

A District Court judge in Illinois has denied a defendant’s motion to dismiss after it was sued for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by only mentioning that a dispute had to be filed in writing but granted the motion on the claim that a reference to obtaining …

A District Court judge in Washington has granted a plaintiff’s motion for partial summary judgment while denying motions for summary judgment filed by the defendants in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case, ruling that an informal phone call between the plaintiff and a representative of the defendant was enough …

Well that didn’t take long. Less than a day after the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued its ruling in Hunstein v. Preferred Collection and Management Services, a class-action lawsuit has been filed in New York federal court accusing a debt collector of violating Section 1692c(b) and 1692f of the …

In a case that was defended by the team at Malone Frost Martin, the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has affirmed a lower court’s ruling in favor of a defendant that was sued for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act because it did not include a copy …

The Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has affirmed the dismissal of a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case in which the defendant was sued for itemizing the interest and fees due as “$0.00” in a collection letter because the plaintiff claimed the itemization falsely implied that they could …

A District Court judge in Florida went to great lengths to spell out exactly why a plaintiff lacked standing to sue in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case in which she alleged a collection law firm did not engage in meaningful attorney involvement before sending a validation notice on …