All posts tagged "fdcpa"
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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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1.3KDebt CollectorNo Reyes of Hope as Fifth Circuit Manipulates Numbers to Ignore It’s Own Precedent FDCPA Case Law
Before recording a privilege, (aka, start foreclosure proceedings) Steeg Law’s practice is to transmit lien letters to unit owners. These letters relate...
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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...
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1.4KFDCPADissenting Justice Alito of the US Supreme Court for the Fifth Circuit and the FDCPA.
FDCPA This case presents the question whether the bona fide error defense in applies to a violation resulting from a debt collector's...
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1.5KDebt CollectorTexas Republican Vincente Gonzalez Selling out Texans by Sponsoring HR 5082
The House of Representatives will vote on a dangerous bill, H.R. 5082, called the Practice of Law Technical Clarification Act of 2018 sponsored by...
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1.3KDebt CollectorThe CFPB should change it’s name from Consumer to Pro-Bank Bureau
The CFPB or more aptly named the Pro-Bank Bureau, asserts that deeming the initiation of a non-judicial foreclosure proceeding to be debt...
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1.4KDebt CollectorOutrageous Attorney Fees in FDCPA Debt Collector Win Upsets the Fifth Circuit Panel
Crystal Davis appeals the district court’s denial of her motion for attorney’s fees, arguing that an award of reasonable attorney’s fees is...
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1.7KFifth CircuitHo Ho Ho, it’s a Certification Request to the Supreme Court of Texas (finally)
What's interesting is this case, not a mortgage/foreclosure case, is the first by a new judge (appointed by Trump) to Certify to...
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1.2KCFPBThe Lawless ‘Bounty Hunter’
What recourse is available to a consumer for fraudulent or abusive collection practices? Nothing in Texas, they are pro debt collectors.
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1.4KFifth CircuitA Plethora of Lawsuits is an Expensive Mistake
Kim brought several lawsuits which were combined and disposed by the Fifth Circuit, confirming Bank win in this foreclosure appeal.
