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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 …

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 …

There is no doubt that consumers are often confused by the information that is sent to them by debt collectors. It is the very reason why courts have instituted the least sophisticated consumer standard, a lens through which judges can determine whether even the village idiot would understand what is …

A District Court judge in New York has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss, ruling that the language that was used in a series of letters that raised the possibility that the plaintiff would be sued if she did not make arrangements to repay her debt did not violate the …

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 …

A District Court judge in New Jersey has denied a plaintiff’s motion to certify a class in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act lawsuit, ruling that the different letter templates used by the defendant and the different language included in those templates requires individualized inquiries into whether the letters received …

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 New York has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss after it was sued for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act because the plaintiff received a collection letter that indicated her account would be referred to an attorney to review “possible legal options” if …

A District Court judge in Washington has partially granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment while denying a plaintiff’s motion for the same ruling in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case in which the defendant attempted to collect a debt from the plaintiff, who claims not to have incurred …

In a case that was defended by the team at Malone Frost Martin, the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has affirmed a lower court’s ruling in favor of a defendant that was sued for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act because it did not include a copy …