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PRESIDENT NOMINATES KAVANAUGH TO SUPREME COURT
- In a move that did not come as a huge surprise to anyone, President Donald Trump last night nominated Brett Kavanaugh to be a Supreme Court Justice. Kavanaugh, who has been a judge on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia for the past 12 years, would replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, who has announced his retirement from the bench. Kavanaugh’s name should be familiar to everyone in the ARM industry regarding his feelings about the leadership structure of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection.
PLAINTIFF SUES DISH NETWORK FOR TCPA VIOLATION OVER 300 CALLS TO WRONG NUMBER
- A plaintiff has filed a lawsuit against Dish Network, alleging the company violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act when it made more than 300 collection-related calls to the plaintiff’s cell phone without her consent because the company was trying to reach someone else.
MULVANEY ANNOUNCES NEW DEPUTY DIRECTOR AS KRANINGER CONFIRMATION LOOMS
- It did not take Mick Mulvaney, the acting director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, long to replace Leandra English as the bureau’s deputy director. Just a few days after English announced her intention to resign from the post and drop her lawsuit against President Trump asserting her belief that she should be the rightful acting director, Mulvaney tapped Brian Johnson to be the BCFP’s acting deputy director.
CORRECTION: A mistake was made yesterday in an article about FirstPoint Collection Resources acquiring Credit Bureau Systems. I mistakenly linked to, and included information about, the wrong Credit Bureau Systems. The updated article appears here. I apologize for any confusion.
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