Earlier this month, Sprint settled, on an individual basis, a proposed FCRA class action accusing the telecommunications provider of asking consumers to waive privacy rights in its consumer disclosure forms.
Specifically, the plaintiff claimed that the disclosure form Sprint used was not in a document that “consists solely of the disclosure” as required under 15
Bills have recently been introduced in a number of states that would prohibit prospective employers from inquiring about an applicant’s salary history. These bills are aimed at preventing wage discrimination among workers that perform similar or identical job functions.
These bills follow on the heels of approved legislation in Massachusetts. Massachusetts Senate Bill 2119,
On August 19, the United States District Court for the District of Nevada dismissed a putative Fair Credit Reporting Act class action against two taxi companies that had allegedly violated the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act by including the first digit and last four digits of consumers’ credit card numbers
On August 19, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission and the New York Attorney General filed a summary judgment motion against Buffalo, New York area debt collectors who allegedly harassed and threatened consumers into paying millions on debts allegedly owed by the consumers.
The FTC and New York State Attorney General filed a joint Complaint in
The Eleventh Circuit recently released an unpublished decision regarding its opinion on the impact of Spokeo on a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act putative class action, finding that the named plaintiff satisfied Article III standing requirement.
In Church v. Accretive Health, Inc., the defendant sent the named plaintiff a letter advising her that she
In Davis v. Hollins Law, the Ninth Circuit recently reversed a lower court’s judgment in favor of the plaintiff on a claim under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, finding that the defendant debt collector’s communication was sufficient in context to disclose to the least sophisticated debtor that it was from a debt collector.
The United States District Court for the Northern District of California entered an order on August 9, approving a $2.4 million settlement between Social Finance Inc. (“SoFi”) and a class of nearly 11,000 consumers for alleged violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
In Heaton v. Social Finance Inc., the named plaintiffs alleged that
On July 28, at a public hearing in Sacramento, California, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released an outline of new rules targeting third-party debt-collection operations. The new rules seek to curb “excessive or disruptive” communications by restricting collectors from calling debtors numerous times a day, requiring debt collection companies to have “more and better
In Cour v. Life360, Inc., the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss a claim under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, finding that the defendant’s system for sending text messages did not constitute “making” a call under the statute. In reaching
In a case of first impression, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held in July that all debt collectors must send debtors a verification notice. “In other words, if there are multiple debt collectors that try to collect a debt, each one must send the required notice after its first communication with