On November 20, a judge for the Southern District of New York granted a motion to dismiss a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) class-action holding that a simple lack of a date on a model validation notice did not...more
On August 24, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia denied the defendant’s motion to dismiss claims asserted under the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act (FDCPA), holding that for claims based on...more
In Valentine v. Mullooly, Jeffrey, Rooney & Fylnn LLP the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey found that the plaintiff had not suffered an injury in fact and therefore lacked standing to assert a claim under...more
9/7/2023
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In a matter involving the bona fide error defense to claims asserted under the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act (FDCPA), an Indiana court of appeals reversed a trial court’s order granting summary judgment in favor of the...more
In Khimmat v. Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co., LPA, No. 2:21-cv-02944-JDW, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 21076 (E.D. Pa. February 7, 2022), Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co., LPA (Weltman), a law firm tasked with collecting the debt owed by...more
In Rodenburg LLP v. The Cincinnati Insurance Company, No. 20-2521 (8th Cir. August 25, 2021), the Eighth Circuit upheld a district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of an insurance company that was sued by a law...more