We are pleased to announce that Troutman Sanders partner Ronald Raether will make a presentation on, “Incident Response Plans: Avoiding Common Mistakes through a Table Top Exercise,” at the Fraud & Breach Prevention Summit at the Hyatt Hotel in Dallas, Texas on April 24th, 2018 at 10:50 a.m. Ronald will also be on a…
In a recent ruling, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that plaintiffs stated a viable claim under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by alleging that a collection letter which included the safe harbor language set forth in Miller v. McCalla, Raymer, Padrick, Cobb, Nichols, & Clark, LLC, 214 F.3d 872 (7th Cir. 2000),…
In a still-incomplete provocative piece whose conclusions were presented at this year’s American Economic Association (“AEA”) meeting in Philadelphia in January 2018 and highlighted by the American Bankruptcy Institute on March 29, 2018, three economists—Gene Amromin, Vice President and Director of Financial Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; Janice…
On March 19, the United States District Court for the Western District of New York granted summary judgment to a debt collector who was sued for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1692-1692p, by including language in a form letter that referred to the tax…
On April 3, both the City and County of San Francisco amended the Fair Chance Ordinance (“FCO”) – their existing ban-the-box law – to align it with the new, corollary California law (AB 1008) that took effect on January 1, 2018. San Francisco’s new amendments take effect on October 1, 2018.
The amendments to the existing…
The District of Nevada recently applied the D.C. Circuit’s decision in ACA International v. FCC and granted summary judgment in favor of the defendant on plaintiff’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act claim. Specifically, the Court held in Marshall v. The CBE Group, Inc. that CBE’s phone system does not qualify as an automatic telephone dialing…
We previously reported on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in Oliva v. Blatt, Hasenmiller, Leibsker & Moore, LLC, 864 F.3d 492 (7th Cir. 2017). In Oliva, the sharply-divided Seventh Circuit held that the debt collector was liable under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act even though the collector followed a longstanding…
We are pleased to announce that Troutman Sanders Partner Mary C. Zinsner will moderate the Government and Financial Regulation Leaders Roundtable at the Women Leaders in Financial Services Law and Compliance Conference at the James Hotel in New York City on May 10th, 2018 at 4:30 p.m.
ACI hosts the Women Leaders in Financial Services…
Within days of realizing a data breach incident had occurred, Under Armour, Inc.—the owner of the popular calorie counting application, MyFitnessPal—began notifying its users of the breach that impacted approximately 150 million user accounts. According to the data breach notice, the MyFitnessPal team learned on March 25 that an unauthorized party acquired data associated…
According to a recent decision from the California Court of Appeal, mortgage lenders and servicers can, at least under certain circumstances, be “debt collectors” under the California Rosenthal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, frequently referred to as the “Rosenthal Act.”.
In the case, plaintiff Edward Davidson filed a putative class action suing his mortgage servicer,…
