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Fifth Circuit Affirms FCRA Limits: Credit Reporting Agencies are Not Required to Resolve Fraud Claims

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In a case of first impression, the Fifth Circuit in Reyes v. Equifax Information Systems, L.L.C., joined the First, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits in affirming the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas’s...more

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Fifth Circuit affirms lower court’s decision holding that a credit reporting agency did not violate the FCRA by not investigating...

On June 13, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court’s decision granting summary judgment in favor of the defendant, a credit reporting agency, and dismissing all claims brought by the...more

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Litigation Byte (May 2025 Edition)

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Delivered in digestible, insightful bites, McGlinchey’s Litigation Byte is a monthly roundup of financial services decisions and cases nationwide that impact your business....more

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Federal Appeals Court Backs District Court: No Notary Exception to Face-to-Face Rule in Debt Relief Case

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On June 2, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a decisive ruling in a case involving allegations that certain debt-relief service providers illegally collected advance fees in violation of the...more

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Fourth Circuit Expands FCRA Liability: Legal Inaccuracies Now Actionable

On March 14, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit vacated the dismissal of a lawsuit alleging a failure to reasonably investigate a disputed debt. The lawsuit concerned a consumer who disputed a debt that she...more

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Third Circuit Finds Class Plaintiff Lacks Standing to Sue Under the FDCPA

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The Third Circuit Court of Appeals recently affirmed the district court’s decision to dismiss a putative class action against a collection company on the grounds that the plaintiff lacked standing to sue under the Fair Debt...more

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Fourth Circuit Ruling Provides New Guidance as to Furnishers’ Duty to Investigate Legal Disputes Under the FCRA

The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) has been a notoriously active area for litigation, especially class-action litigation, in recent years. One issue that continues to be litigated in FCRA cases involving data furnisher...more

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Fourth Circuit Rules on Furnisher’s Duty To Investigate Disputed Debt under the Fair Credit Reporting Act

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On March 14, 2025, in a case of first impression, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit addressed the nature of a furnisher’s duty to investigate disputed information appearing in a consumer’s credit report under...more

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South Carolina high court will no longer rule on debt collector case

On April 30, the South Carolina Supreme Court reversed course by declining to issue a ruling on debt-collection practices. The state high court issued an order dismissing the case, ruling that a writ of certiorari was...more

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Eleventh Circuit affirms lower court FCRA decision

On May 5, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit dismissed in part an individual plaintiff’s appeal and otherwise affirmed the district court. The plaintiff had alleged that the defendant violated the FCRA by...more

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Ninth Circuit denies rehearing of lending company’s restitution challenge

On April 24, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied a loan company’s petition for rehearing and or rehearing en banc. The lender contested that the $134 million legal restitution it was mandated to pay to the...more

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Fourth Circuit rules bankruptcy discharge does not eliminate FDCPA claims on mortgage liens

On April 4, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued an opinion reversing in part a lower court’s dismissal. The district court dismissed a plaintiff’s (an individual) complaint against a mortgage loan servicer...more

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Litigation Byte (March 2025 Edition)

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Delivered in digestible, insightful bites, McGlinchey’s Litigation Byte is a monthly roundup of financial services decisions and cases nationwide that impact your business. ...more

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Seventh Circuit reverses lower court’s FDCPA case, holding plaintiff lacked standing

On March 21, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed a district court judgment in a case involving statutory damages under the FDCPA for lack of injury. The court asserted that statutory damages alone do...more

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Fourth Circuit Issues Ruling on Furnisher’s Duty to Investigate Legal Disputes Under FCRA

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On March 14, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued a ruling addressing the obligations of furnishers under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) to conduct reasonable investigations of disputed information,...more

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California appellate court rules statutory damages don’t require proof of injury under state law

On February 13, in a decision from the California Court of Appeal, the court examined whether a consumer must establish actual damages to pursue statutory damages under California’s Fair Debt Buying Practices Act (FDBPA). The...more

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Eleventh Circuit orders en banc rehearing in Hunstein

On November 17, a majority of the active judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued an order sua sponte to rehear Hunstein v. Preferred Collection and Management Services, Inc., en banc. The order...more

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Temporary Relief for Debt Collectors: 11th Circuit Withholds Hunstein Mandate

On June 14, 2021, the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit issued an order withholding issuance of the mandate for its April 21, 2021, holding in Hunstein v. Preferred Collection and Management Services, Inc. In Hunstein,...more

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Bay Area Credit Defeats FDCPA Claim: Fifth Circuit Affirms Covered “Communications” Must Convey Information Regarding a Debt

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The Fifth Circuit’s decision in Fontana v. Bay Area Credit Services, No. 20-30471 (5th Cir. 2021) sets another important limitation on the scope of covered “communications” under the FDCPA. In this case, Bay Area Credit...more

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Consumer Law Hinsights – September 2020

Consumer Law Hinsights is a monthly compilation of nationwide consumer protection cases of interest to financial services and accounts receivable management companies. This edition also highlights the recently updated 50...more

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Consumer Law Hinsights – August 2020

Consumer Law Hinsights is a monthly compilation of nationwide consumer protection cases of interest to financial services and accounts receivable management companies, brought to you by Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP....more

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Consumer Law Hinsights – July 2020

Welcome to Consumer Law Hinsights?a monthly compilation of nationwide consumer protection cases of interest to financial services and accounts receivable management companies. This edition highlights our interactive COVID-19...more

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Consumer Law Hinsights – May 2020

Consumer Law Hinsights is a monthly compilation of nationwide consumer protection cases of interest to financial services and accounts receivable management companies....more

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Supreme Court Generally Disapproves of a Discovery-Rule Exception to Federal Statutes of Limitations

Not so long ago, federal courts began to hold that a federal statute of limitations did not run until the plaintiff knew or reasonably should have known of his or her claim. This is commonly called the “discovery rule.” The...more

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BizLitNews SCOTUS watch: Rotkiske v. Klemm and whether the “discovery rule” applies to FDCPA’s one-year limitations period.

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We are keeping an eye on Rotkiske v. Klemm, which is currently pending at the U.S. Supreme Court. This case will likely resolve a circuit split on whether the “discovery rule” applies to toll the one-year statute of...more

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