Servicer, College Facing FCRA Suit Over Fraudulent Student Loan That Wouldn’t Go Away
- How long can the tail of a data breach be? Try 14 years. A student loan servicer and a community college are facing an FCRA suit from a plaintiff who claims a fraudulent loan tied to a 2012 breach keeps reappearing on his credit report no matter how many times he successfully disputes it.
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Appeals Court Vacates $500k Jury Award Against Collector in FCRA Case
- A half-million dollar jury verdict, gone. The Tenth Circuit ruled that a consumer claiming identity theft never proved the debt was actually inaccurate, holding that disputed information must be “objectively and readily verifiable” as wrong before a furnisher’s investigation is ever put under the microscope. The decision hands furnishers a powerful new defense in identity theft disputes.
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Senators Demand Answers From CFPB Over Complaint Portal Changes They Say Benefit Credit Bureaus
- Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Andy Kim are accusing the CFPB of rewriting its complaint portal to the credit bureaus’ specifications, pointing to new dispute-first warnings and authentication hurdles that mirror requests made by the CDIA and the Big Three. With credit reporting complaints making up 85% of everything the Bureau receives, the answers due July 30 could reshape the complaint pipeline for the entire industry.
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Most Enterprises Have Pulled Back a Live AI Agent: Report
- Getting an AI agent live is no longer the hard part; keeping it live is. New research finds 74% of enterprises that deployed a customer-facing AI agent have had to pull it back, and the failure rate is even higher among companies with the most mature governance programs. The leading causes, data exposure and hallucinations, should sound very familiar to anyone in collections compliance.
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Debt Collection Lawsuit Filings Kept Climbing in 2025, and Reform Advocates Are Paying Attention
- Collection lawsuit filings rose in seven of eight tracked states last year, with Missouri, Texas, and Massachusetts all well above pre-pandemic levels and one debt buyer now responsible for nearly a quarter of all filings in the sample. Pew is using the numbers to push states toward new documentation mandates, garnishment protections, and even GPS-verified service of process.
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State Appeals Court Rules Citing Fake AI-Generated Cases is Sanctionable, Regardless of Intent
- An Arizona appeals court has ruled that filing AI-hallucinated case citations is sanctionable even without any intent to deceive, striking every bad citation from a litigant’s brief and ordering him to pay the other side’s fees. The court’s warning that AI is “an unreliable narrator and researcher” is one every legal department using these tools should read.
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Judge Tosses FDCPA, FCRA Suit, Won’t Hunt for ‘Truffles’ in 237 Pages of Exhibits
- A Pennsylvania federal judge dismissed, with prejudice, an FDCPA and FCRA suit built on a three-page complaint and 237 pages of exhibits, noting the “inconsistent” balances at the heart of the case appeared to be two different accounts. His reasoning: judges are not pigs, and they will not hunt for truffles buried in the record.
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