Tag Archives: Hunstein v. Preferred Collection and Management Services

A District Court judge in Florida has denied a defendant’s motion to stay a Hunstein case, ruling that the pending en banc petition in Hunstein before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals “does not affect the precedential value” of the ruling, “which is the law of this circuit.” A copy …

Both the defendant in the Hunstein v. Preferred Collection and Management Services case as well as ACA International jumped on the Supreme Court’s ruling in TransUnion v. Ramirez to add to their arguments why the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals should grant the petition for an en banc rehearing of …

While everyone in the accounts receivable management industry waits with bated breath for the Eleventh Circuit to announce whether it will grant the petition for an en banc rehearing in the Hunstein case, behind the scenes the Court is moving forward procedurally with the steps it needs to take. Yesterday, …

If there was any doubt over the importance of the Hunstein case to the accounts receivable management industry, and to the camaraderie and support that companies in this industry have for one another, and that every lawyer in the country was working over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, look no …

Companies and organizations across the accounts receivable management industry are starting to line up behind the defendant in Hunstein v. Preferred Collection and Management Services, filing amicus briefs supporting the defendant’s petition for an en banc re-hearing before the entire Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Yesterday, briefs were filed by …

The defendant in the Hunstein case yesterday filed its petition with the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals seeking to have the case re-heard before all of the court’s judges — known as an en banc hearing — arguing that the three-judge panel erred when it ruled last month that a …

The web of rulings spiraling out of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals’s decision in Hunstein v. Preferred Collection & Management Services is beginning to be woven, this time in a Fair Credit Reporting Act case. But in this case a District Court judge determined the plaintiff did not have …

When a consumer disputes an item on his or her credit report under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the furnisher is required to conduct a “reasonable” investigation to ensure the information being furnished is accurate. But, as many furnishers have come to learn, what constitutes a “reasonable” investigation is often …

The number of 1692c(b) lawsuits alleging that a debt collector communicated information with a third party in violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act continues to explode in the weeks following the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals’s ruling in Hunstein v. Preferred Collection and Management Services. There have been …

The number of class-action lawsuits accusing debt collectors of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by communicating with a third party — a letter vendor — about the existence of a debt when it sent the plaintiff’s personal information to the vendor to be included in and mailed out …