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A Magistrate judge in Texas has recommended that a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case against a first-party debt collector be dismissed because the plaintiff did not do enough to argue that the defendant meets the definition of debt collector under the statute. A copy of the ruling in the …

In a case that is being defended by the team at Malone Frost Martin, a District Court judge in Texas has granted a defendant’s motion to compel documents related to the plaintiff’s attorneys’ fees, costs, fee arrangements, and billing records in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act class-action lawsuit, ruling …