On January 18, a United States magistrate judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania opined that a plaintiff has standing under Spokeo to pursue his Fair Credit Reporting Act class action complaint in federal court.
In Miller v. Trans Union LLC, plaintiff Ronald J. Miller alleges that Trans Union violated section 1681g(a) of
On January 13, 2017, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear a case presenting the question whether a financing company that purchases delinquent debts and begins collecting on those debts can be held liable under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). The Court will review the Fourth Circuit’s decision in Henson et al.
On January 10, the FTC filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against Credit Bureau Center LLC and three individuals for allegedly luring consumers into signing up for credit monitoring services using fake rental property ads and offers of free credit reports.
The complaint alleged that all the
Lands’ End, a Wisconsin-based clothing retailer, was named as a defendant in a putative class action filed January 4 under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act in federal court in Connecticut. The TCPA includes, as a result of the Junk Fax Protection Act of 2005, prohibitions on sending unsolicited fax advertisements without a required opt-out notice
On January 4, a defendant in a Fair Debt Collections Practices Act case moved for sanctions against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, arguing that it never had proof that the defendant acted wrongfully when it filed suit in early 2015. In support of its Motion, Pathfinder Payment Solutions, Inc. stated that the Bureau “knowingly exceeded
In Telephone Science Corporation v. Asset Recovery Solutions, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois recently held that Telephone Science Corporation (“TSC”), a telecommunications company, did not have standing to pursue its Telephone Consumer Protection Act claims against Asset Recovery Solutions, LLC (“ARS”), a debt collection company.
TSC operates a
On January 12, the FTC held its second annual PrivacyCon conference in Washington. The day-long event featured presentations and exhibits by a number of scholars and privacy experts offering their research on consumer privacy and security in the digital age.
Chairwoman Edith Ramirez opened PrivacyCon by noting the myriad ways that consumer data is collected,
An operator of a mortgage relief scam and an attorney agreed to court orders banning them from the debt relief business in order to resolve allegations brought by the FTC that they swindled millions of dollars from financially distressed homeowners.
According to the FTC’s Complaint, in the scheme, Damian Kutzner and four attorneys operating
On the same day that House Democrats wrote to President-elect Donald Trump to defend controversial Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray, two Republican senators sent a letter to Vice President-elect Mike Pence to press for his removal. The letter, signed by Ben Sasse (Neb.) and Mike Lee (Utah), requested that Trump dismiss Cordray “promptly
On January 9, twenty-one Democrats from the House of Representatives sent a letter to President-elect Trump in defense of controversial Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray, urging Trump not to remove Cordray from his post. The letter began by noting that no President has ever removed an independent agency head for cause and threatened