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A class-action lawsuit has been filed in New Jersey by a plaintiff who claims that a debt buyer allegedly violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act because it did not have the proper license to authorize a collection law firm to try and collect on a judgment in that state …

Companies in the accounts receivable management industry can add “irritation,” “concern,” “feeling targeted,” and “hustled,” to the list of harms that do not create standing to sue in federal court when accusing a debt collector of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act after a District Court judge in Ohio …

In what may be a case of mistaken identity or a case of a first-party collector doing its job properly, a District Court judge in New York has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss after it was sued for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act because it allegedly sent …

Navigating the rough waters of credit reporting is tough sailing oftentimes. Even when a company tries to do the right thing, problems can arise. One defendant is learning that after a District Court judge in Missouri partially granted and partially denied its motion for judgment on the pleadings in a …

Verbs are important components of a sentence. In fact, a sentence isn’t really a sentence without a verb in it. But choosing the right verb can be difficult. Take, for example, a collection letter that includes a disclosure attempting to inform the recipient of the letter that the balance that …

A District Court judge in Washington has awarded two plaintiffs more than $60,000 in emotional damages in a bench trial after suing a collector for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act because the defendant attempted to collect more than what was owed and for making false and misleading …

Even though he had been told otherwise, writing a note in the memo line of a check that a debt was being paid in exchange for deletion of a tradeline does not work, according to a District Court judge in New Jersey who granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment …

A District Court judge in New York has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment after it was sued for a laundry list of alleged violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act in a letter that was sent to the plaintiff while also declining a motion from the plaintiff …

On remand from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, a District Court judge in Oregon has partially granted a plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment, ruling that a debt buyer who places accounts with a debt collector can be held vicariously liable for the actions of the debt collector, because the …

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court’s decision and remanded a case back to a District Court judge to enter judgment in favor of a defendant in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case, ruling that the defendant did not have to notify the plaintiff that …