Tag Archives: 1692e(2)

A District Court judge in Washington has partially granted a plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment, ruling that the defendant’s attempts to collect an unpaid apartment debt that was inflated because the creditor determined that the plaintiff had forfeited her security deposit violated certain provisions of the Fair Debt Collection Practices …

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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F by attempting to collect a debt through calls and text messages to the plaintiff’s cell phone after consent had been revoked and after the debt in question had been …

A pair of lawsuits that have been filed against different collection agencies highlights an interesting trend that has occurred in a number of cases involving alleged violations of Regulation F — specifically situations where a plaintiff’s claims relate to incidents or events that took place before November 30, 2021, when …

A plaintiff in Texas has filed a lawsuit against a debt collector, claiming it violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and Regulation F by allegedly reporting a debt to the credit reporting agencies that had already been paid in full. A copy of the complaint in the case of …

The Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has upheld a summary judgment ruling in favor of a law firm that was accused of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by suing an individual who was allegedly responsible for a medical debt incurred by his wife, before they divorced. …

A District Court judge in Washington has mostly denied a defendant’s motion to dismiss — she did grant it on one count of the claim — in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case in which the debt collector was accused of attempting to collect a debt that the plaintiff …

A District Court judge in Pennsylvania has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment on all claims in a Fair Credit Reporting Act and Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case after it was accused by the plaintiff of not properly investigating a disputed debt because the plaintiff did not do …

A District Court judge in Tennessee is the latest to use the Supreme Court’s ruling in TransUnion v. Ramirez as grounds to determine that a plaintiff lacked standing to sue a collector for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act because it indicated in a collection letter that additional …

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 …