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Class actions are on the rise. Is your business ready to protect itself? Hi, I'm Jason Tompkins, a member of Balch's Consumer Finance Compliance and Defense Practice. Debt collectors are frequent targets of class actions...more
In a revised opinion issued September 8, 2022, an en banc panel of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed last year’s controversial opinion which potentially spelled trouble for debt collectors utilizing third-party...more
On September 8, 2022, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals gave its final word—after many twists and turns—in Hunstein v. Preferred Collection and Management Services, Inc., No. 19-14434. The court issued an en banc opinion...more
On September 8, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued an order in Hunstein v. Preferred Collection and Management Services, Inc. dismissing the case after determining that plaintiff failed to allege a...more
On April 27, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania certified a class comprised of individuals alleging the Defendants violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). Plaintiffs...more
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
Today, Hunstein took another unique—but favorable—turn for the debt collection industry. The Eleventh Circuit Court of appeals issued an order vacating its last opinion in Hunstein vs. Preferred Collection & Management...more
On October 28, 2021, the Eleventh Circuit vacated its April 21, 2021 opinion (Hunstein I) that had sent shockwaves through the debt collection industry and substituted a new Opinion (Hunstein II) in its place...more
A panel of the Eleventh Circuit has once again held that a debt collector possibly violates the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) by transmitting private information to a third-party commercial mail vendor. In...more
In an unusual move, an Eleventh Circuit panel doubled down on its prior, industry-disrupting decision that a debt collector may violate the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”) by transmitting private information to a...more
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has issued its ruling on the motion for rehearing in Hunstein v. Preferred Collection and Management Services, Inc., Case No. 19-14434 but most of the troublesome aspects of the Court’s...more
Earlier this year, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit released the controversial decision Hunstein v. Preferred Collection & Mgmt. Services, Inc., No. 19-14434, 2021 WL 1556069 (11th Cir. Apr. 21,...more
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent TransUnion v. Ramirez decision on Article III standing was discussed at length and applied by the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Lupia v. Medicredit, Inc., --- F. 4th ---, 2021 WL 3627103...more