Appeals Court Vacates Dismissal of FDCPA Class Action Because Plaintiff Lacked Standing
- The technicalities of the legal system can be fascinating and unanticipated. To wit, the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has vacated a District Court’s dismissal of a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act class-action lawsuit against a collector because the plaintiff lacked standing to sue, and remanded the case back to the lower court to determine whether the plaintiff should be allowed to amend her complaint or whether the case should be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction instead.
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Judge Denies MSJ for Defendant in TCPA Case Over Calls Made After Consent was Revoked
- Presented with either believing a defendant claiming it never contacted a plaintiff after she retained counsel and revoked consent to be contacted or a plaintiff who said that the defendant did call four more times, a District Court judge in Nevada is siding with the plaintiff for now, choosing to put her trust in what the Better Business Bureau says on its website. Adding another layer of complexity into the situation is the fact that two collection agencies with roughly the same name may have been trying to get in touch with the plaintiff at roughly the same time.
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Create Your Own Custom GPTs
- Earlier this month, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, announced a number of new updates and upgrades to its flagship product. One of those upgrades is allowing individuals to create their own custom versions of ChatGPT, called GPTs. These GPTs can be tailored for just about any task or topic with you setting the parameters and guardrails for what the GPT can and can’t do.
- More details here.
Compliance Digest – November 27
- We all might still be sleepy from Thanksgiving feasts and Black Friday shop-a-thons, but the legal world never stops spinning. Check out this week’s Compliance Digest for insights into a number of recent court cases and see what Rick Perr, Chelsey Pankratz, Brent Yarborough, and Heath Morgan have to say about them,
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- This series is sponsored by Bedard Law Group
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