All posts tagged "debt collection"
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1.4KAccelerationConsumer Finance Protection Bureau Targeted Debt Collecting Lawyers Under ex-CFPB Director Richard Cordray
In the words of CFPB Director Richard Cordray, These wolves in sheep’s clothing [lawyers] take money from consumers who are already struggling...
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2.6KCFPBAfter Four Years of Litigation, CFPB is Now Obtaining Judgment(s) from the Court against Rogue Debt Collectors and their Related Entities
Our lawsuit asserts that consumers were harassed, threatened, and deceived as part of a reprehensible scheme to collect debt that was not...
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1.5KAccelerationBankruptcies Are Increasing and The Courts, Lawyers, and Debt Collectors are the Winners as the Government Promotes More Harassment toward Consumers via the Licensing of Automated Calls by State Agencies
ADAD stands for Automatic Dial Announcing Device, and this is the mechanism that sends an unsolicited recorded message to your home or...
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2.1KEditors ChoiceEditors Choice: U.S. Supreme Court Rule Debt Collecting Foreclosure Attorneys are Not Debt Collectors under the FDCPA
Congress may think these state protections adequate, or it may choose to expand the reach of the FDCPA. Regardless, for the reasons...
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1.3KEditors ChoiceEditors Choice: Is Foreclosure Debt Collection? The US Supreme Court Heard Oral Arguments on Monday (Minus a Recovering Justice Ginsberg)
Justice Samuel Alito (for the Fifth Circuit) seemed the most receptive to that argument (a foreclosure is NOT a debt collection), telling...
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1.3KEditors ChoiceEditors Choice: Is Foreclosure Debt Collection? The US Supreme Court to Decide if FDCPA Applies to Foreclosure Mills and Bounty Hunting Attorneys
Were the Supreme Court to want to include attorneys effecting nonjudicial foreclosures under the FDCPA’s definition of debt collectors, it might find...
