A District Court judge in Michigan has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss a class action on one of the claims accusing a company of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, but denied the motion to dismiss the remaining claims, ruling that using different account numbers when attempting to …
Read More »Collector Accused of Violating Reg F, FDCPA by Failing to Include Opt-Out Message in Emails
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Read More »Judge Dismisses FDCPA Case Over Multiple Address, Third-Party Disclosure, for Lack of Standing
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 …
Read More »Class Action Accuses Collector of Violating FDCPA via Text Message
A class-action complaint has been filed in federal court in North Carolina accusing a collector of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by sending a text message to a consumer that created “a false sense of urgency” because of how it was worded, and for not identifying itself as …
Read More »Lawsuit Accuses Collector of Trying to Collect Inflated Amount, Not Including Required Itemization Info in Letter
A complaint has been filed accusing a collection agency of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and Regulation F because it apparently did not use a Model Validation Notice and allegedly did not provide the itemization information required when it sent its first written communication attempting to collect on …
Read More »Judge Grants MTD in FDCPA Case Over Identity Theft Letter
A District Court judge in New Jersey has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss a class-action Fair Debt Collection Practices Act lawsuit over a letter that was sent to the plaintiff providing information about how to file an identity theft claim. A copy of the ruling in the case of …
Read More »Complaint Accuses Collector of Violating FDCPA, Reg F Over Attempts to Collect Discharged Debt
A complaint has been filed in California accusing a collector of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and Regulation F by attempting to collect a debt through calls and text messages to the plaintiff’s cell phone after consent had been revoked and after the debt in question had been …
Read More »Class-Action Complaint Accuses Collector of Listing Wrong Validation Date in Notice
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 …
Read More »Class Action Accuses Collector of Violating FDCPA Over Premature SOL Disclosure
A class action has been filed against a company for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by including a statement in a letter to the plaintiff that the statute of limitations had expired on the underlying debt when, according to the plaintiff, that expiration had not yet occurred. …
Read More »Judge Grants Summary Judgment for Defendant in FDCPA Case Over Multiple Addresses on Payment Coupon
In a case that was defended by Rick Perr and Monica Littman of Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck, a District Court judge in New York has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment in a class-action Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case, ruling the plaintiff lacked standing to sue because he …
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