Seventh Circuit rules Disclosure of Personal Information to Vendor is not an Injury
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CFPB's Policy Statement on Abusiveness (Part 2) - The Consumer Finance Podcast
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On June 26, 2025, Brownstein filed a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Supreme Court, seeking review of a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision regarding the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA)....more
U.S. District Court Judge Barbara J. Rothstein granted, in part, the CFPB's motion to withdraw its amicus brief filed by the Biden-era CFPB regarding the "proper interpretation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act's...more
A federal Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma recently granted the motions of several public entities to dismiss the amended complaint of a pro se plaintiff who brought claims...more
In a recent decision from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, the court granted a motion to dismiss in favor of a debt collection law firm and one of its attorneys who were not licensed as debt...more
A recent summary judgment decision in Nina Quinn-Davis vs. TrueAccord Corp., Case No. 1:23-cv-23590-LEIBOWITZ/REID (S.D. Fla. Nov. 20, 2024), addresses core merits issues in Florida Consumer Collection Practices Act (FCCPA)...more
In Magdy v. I.C. Sys., Inc., No. 21-3010, 2022 WL 4075764, at *1 (8th Cir. Sept. 6, 2022), the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, faced with a matter of first impression, held that a non-consumer attorney could not bring an...more
A recent decision out of the Northern District of Georgia highlights how statutory language is still important when resolving matters under the FDCPA. In this case of Joe v. Capital Link Management LLC, the court held that...more
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals recently issued an opinion affirming the dismissal of a lawsuit because a debt collector’s failure to use the FDCPA’s precise language in its validation notice is not a violation of the...more
Seventh and Eleventh Circuits Scale Back Scope of TCPA in Narrow Reading of ATDS - The Seventh and Eleventh Circuits provided grammar lessons and eliminated the least incorrect options to evaluate what constitutes an...more
Real Property Update - Condition Precedent / Summary Judgment: Master association was not an owner of the condominium association and lacked standing to defend litigation based upon condominium association’s alleged...more