We are pleased to announce that Troutman Sanders partners Ashley Taylor and David Anthony will be featured speakers at the upcoming Credit and Collections News (CCN) Annual Conference. The conference will be held March 30 through April 1 at the Ritz-Carlton in Amelia Island, Florida.
Ashley will speak on a panel entitled “Working with Your
On January 29, Illinois enacted Senate Bill 1369. The bill makes certain revisions and amendments to the prior debt collection requirements that were enacted within the state in 2015. The law is effective immediately.
Among other provisions, the law adds the following definitions to the debt collection statute:
Last week, through the issuance of an executive order, the City of Birmingham became the first city in Alabama to “ban the box” on its hiring applications. The prohibition applies to municipal positions within the city, and it prevents an inquiry into an applicant’s criminal history at the application stage. The executive
As part of the Federal Trade Commission’s systematic review of all current FTC rules and guides, the agency recently announced a modified 10-year regulatory review schedule. To ensure that its rules and industry guides stay relevant and are not overly burdensome, the FTC reviews them at 10-year intervals. The review schedule is published each
We are pleased to announce that Troutman Sanders partner David Anthony will be a featured speaker at the American Conference Institute’s Data Breach & Privacy Litigation and Enforcement Conference at the Union League in Philadelphia March 17-19, 2016.
David will be a featured speaker on a panel entitled “Business to Business Claims: Vendor Lawsuits;
Troutman Sanders would like to share the attached favorable decision from the Eastern District of Virginia on behalf of its client, Portfolio Recovery Associates (“PRA”). The district court recently denied plaintiff’s motion for class certification in a case alleging that PRA violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by sending debt
The 2010 financial reform law, known as the Dodd-Frank Act, has led to a 14.5 percent cut in consumer revolving credit since its enactment, says the American Action Forum. Based on the AAF’s latest research, consumer credit access is taking a substantial hit as a result of the $30 billion in regulatory costs and 72
The Fifth Circuit recently adopted a presumption in favor of retaining federal jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act (“CAFA”) and placing the burden squarely on plaintiffs who seek to remand a case based on one of CAFA’s limited exceptions. Specifically, the Court held that “[i]f the applicability of an exception
I. Background
On February 3, 2016, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a bulletin warning companies that furnish information on consumers to consumer reporting agencies (CRAs) yet again of the need to have adequate policies and procedures. This bulletin makes clear that any company that supplies information to CRAs is in an area of
On February 2, the Fourth Circuit held that an arbitration agreement “may not flatly and categorically renounce the authority of the federal statutes to which it is and must remain subject.” Because the arbitration agreement at issue sought to “avoid state and federal law and to game the entire system,” the three-judge panel concluded that