Tag Archives: 1692e(2)(A)

A District Court judge in Kansas has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case, ruling that the plaintiff lacked standing to sue because she was confused about an alleged discrepancy in the balance of her debt after receiving several collection letters, but, perhaps more …

In a case that was defended by Rick Perr of Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck, a District Court judge in New Jersey has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act class-action lawsuit over the 1099C language in a collection letter, ruling that the disclosure …

Have you seen those videos, where someone painstakingly takes clips from actors saying different words and assembles them into recreations of songs or famous speeches? Well, at the end of the day, what is recreated is still a song or a famous speech? Similarly, plaintiffs can’t parse words in collection …

In a case that was defended by the team at Malone Frost Martin, a District Court judge in Illinois has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss after it was sued for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by allegedly making conflicting and overshadowing claims in a collection letter. A …

After defaulting on a credit card debt, having a judgment issued against you, and then receiving four more collection letters seeking to collect on a debt, is there anyone who thinks that the next letter is going to induce an individual to repay the debt? But because the balance was …

Sometimes, collectors will use a broad brush and expansive statements to try and cover as much ground as possible when letting consumers know about the rules and regulations related to collecting on unpaid debts. Those statements do not specifically violate the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act ruled a District Court …

A District Court judge in New Jersey has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss on all counts but one in a class-action Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case, ruling that the allegations that the amount of a debt was mis-stated in a letter can not be ruled on at this …

A District Court judge in Florida has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case, while also pointing out that the legal theory put forth by the plaintiff’s attorney has been “tartly” rejected by other courts and “does not improve by repetition.” A …

A District Court judge in Michigan has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss after it was sued for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, ruling that informing the recipient of a collection letter that the unpaid debt may be reported to a credit reporting agency which would negatively …

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 …