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FCRA, FDCPA, TCPA Filings Are Surging — Are Your Defenses Ready?

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The second quarter of 2025 delivered a noticeable uptick in consumer protection lawsuits targeting banks and other financial institutions. FCRA filings jumped about 12% year-over-year, TCPA cases spiked as much as 39% in...more

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Chopra Defends CFPB’s Medical Debt Proposed Rule

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CFPB Director Rohit Chopra on Thursday defended his agency’s proposed rule to prohibit the listing of medical debt on credit reports, contending that such debts are not a fair indication of a person’s financial health....more

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General Counsel of the CFPB Delivers Remarks Focusing on Medical Collections and Tenant Screening

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In a recent speech at the National Consumer Law Center/National Association of Consumer Advocates Spring Training, Seth Frotman, General Counsel of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau), focused on medical...more

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CFPB files amicus briefs in FDCPA case and also files amicus brief in FCRA case jointly with FTC

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The CFPB recently filed two amicus briefs, one in a First Circuit case involving the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and the other, which was filed jointly with the Federal Trade Commission, in a Fourth Circuit...more

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9 Consumer Finance Issues to Note From CFPB Report

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In July, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau published a report highlighting various unfair, deceptive, and abusive acts or practices it claims to have uncovered during its supervisory examinations from July 2022 to...more

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Wisconsin Federal District Court Denies Cross-Motions for Summary Judgment Holding the Reasonableness of Furnisher’s Investigation...

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A U.S. District Court in the Western District of Wisconsin recently denied both the defendant and plaintiff’s summary judgment motions in a Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) case, holding that the reasonableness of the...more

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CFPB Summer 2021 Supervisory Highlights looks at auto servicing, consumer reporting, debt collection, deposits, fair lending,...

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The CFPB has released the Summer 2021 edition of its Supervisory Highlights. The report, which contains 48 pages of supervisory observations, discusses the Bureau’s examinations in the areas of auto servicing, consumer...more

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CFPB Seeks to Enforce CID against Debt Collection Law Firm

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The CFPB has filed a request in the District Court for the Southern District of New York to enforce a civil investigative demand (“CID”) against the Law Offices of Crystal Moroney, P.C. (“LOCM”), a debt collection law firm...more

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Applying Spokeo, 6th Circuit Dismisses FDCPA Suit

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On February 16, 2018, the 6th Circuit, in Hagy v. Demers & Adams (882 F.3d 616 (6th Cir. Feb. 16, 2018)), found that a former borrower did not have standing to assert a claim under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act...more

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Financial Services Report, Fall 2015

BELTWAY - Straight Out of the Seventh Circuit The Seventh Circuit recently affirmed a lower court’s ruling that the SEC cannot be sued in district court to stop it from bringing an administrative action. Bebo v. SEC, No....more

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2014 Survey Of Class Action Cases In Virginia: The Statistics

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In Virginia, class action lawsuits are not permitted in state court. This limitation, however, does not mean that companies doing business in Virginia are not defending class action lawsuits in Virginia....more

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