JUDGE DENIES DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR FEES AND COSTS IN FDCPA CASE
- A District Court judge in Wisconsin has denied a defendant’s motion for fees and costs in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case, even though it won a summary judgment ruling and the plaintiff admitted owing the debt, not writing the dispute letters himself, and never following up to make sure the dispute letters were received, determining that the plaintiff did not act in bad faith when proceeding with his case.
JUDGE GRANTS DEFAULT JUDGMENT FOR PLAINTIFF IN FDCPA CASE, BUT DENIES REQUEST FOR $25K IN EMOTIONAL DISTRESS DAMAGES
- Receiving one phone call and six messages from a collector after notifying it that she was being represented by an attorney is not enough to warrant the $25,000 in emotional distress being sought by the plaintiff in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case, ruled a Magistrate Judge, saying that the amount was “pulled out of thin air.” The judge granted the plaintiff’s motion for default judgment in the case, awarding $7,000 in statutory damages and attorney’s fees, but denied the request for emotional distress damages.
INDIANA AG SUES TELECOM COMPANY FOR FACILITATING ROBOCALL SCAMS
- Todd Rokita, the Attorney General for the state of Indiana, yesterday announced his office has filed a lawsuit against a telecom company for acting as a gateway provider to scammers making hundreds of millions of illegal robocalls across the country.
CFPB GETS GOOD GRADES ON PLAIN LANGUAGE REPORT CARD
- The “infinite monkey theorem” posits that given enough time, a monkey hitting random keys on a typewriter will likely replicate the works of William Shakespeare. While the theory is an exercise in statistics and advanced mathematics, it has been used a number of times in popular culture to describe all manner of actions. Today, it’s being used to compare the grades assigned to each of 21 federal agencies on their writing skills, as assessed by the Center for Plain Language. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, for example, placed in the middle of the pack this year for “organizational compliance” with the Plain Writing Act, a law that was enacted back in 2010, but was ranked behind only the Small Business Administration for its overall writing quality.
CENTRAL PORTFOLIO CONTROL SPONSORS VETERANS FISHING COMPETITION
- Central Portfolio Control, Inc (CPC) sponsored Heroes’N Tonka, a fishing tournament on August 11th, 2021 through the Time On The Water charity group. The Minnetonka, Minnesota-based collection agency was the event’s primary sponsor that featured an all day fishing event at the Lord Fletcher’s Old Lake Lodge on Lake Minnetonka.
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