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A District Court judge has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case, ruling that a voicemail it sent out to all its customers a few months after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic was not a communication in connection with the collection …

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 …

It only took 10 days after going into effect, but it appears as though one of the first lawsuits referencing Regulation F has been filed against a company in the accounts receivable management industry. The complaint, which was filed on December 10, accuses the company of not adhering “to the …

Continuing its year-long attack on standing to file Fair Debt Collection Practices Act lawsuits, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday reversed a lower court’s ruling and ordered it to dismiss a case where the defendant did not send a written notice within five days of the initial contact and …

The Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit yesterday overturned a summary judgment ruling in favor of a collector in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case, but only to remand the case back to the District Court with instructions to dismiss it instead, because the plaintiff lacked standing to …

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 …