JUDGE GRANTS MSJ IN FDCPA CASE OVER CALL VOLUME, USE OF LOCAL NUMBER
- A District Court judge in North Carolina has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case, ruling the use of a local phone number from a collection agency based in another state and that 14 phone calls placed during a one-month period — even though 13 of those calls were made outside of the actionable period — did not violate the statute.
- More details here.
DEBT RELIEF FIRM SETTLES TCPA CLASS ACTION OVER PRE-RECORDED CALLS
- A Pennsylvania law firm that specializes in debt relief services has filed a notice in Colorado federal court that it has reached a settlement in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action that claimed it was making calls to consumers using a pre-recorded voice without the proper consent to do so.
- More details here.
OREGON LEGISLATURE DEBATING BILL TO AMEND GARNISHMENT, DEBT COLLECTION REGS
- A bill is progressing through the Oregon legislature that would protect and exempt more of an individual’s wages and assets from seizure in the event of judgments and garnishments, while also amending the state’s debt collection law.
- More details here.
EXPERTS TELL YOU WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT RECENT CASES, ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS, AND MORE
- Loraine Lyons breaks down a ruling remanding an FDCPA case back to state court, Chuck Dodge shares what you need to know about a case where a judge partially granted a plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment, John Redding dishes on a petition to ban medical debt credit reporting, and more in this week’s edition of The Compliance Digest.
- More details here.
- This series is sponsored by Bedard Law Group
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