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The battle between New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and daily fantasy sports companies, FanDuel and DraftKings, continues.  On January 11, the First Department of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court allowed the sites to operate while FanDuel and DraftKings appeal a lower court’s order to shut them down.  The First Department…

On January 7, the Federal Trade Commission announced four new enforcement actions targeting debt collectors and continuing the FTC’s nationwide crackdown of illegal debt collection tactics.  The cases are part of Operation Collection Protection, a coordinated federal-state enforcement initiative targeting deceptive and abusive debt collection practices.  Over the past year, 130 actions have been brought…

On December 11, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case involving Ohio’s “special counsel” law under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”), 15 U.S.C. § 1692-1692p, a case that is likely to have much wider implications involving the standard for determining whether a debt-collection method is “false, deceptive, or misleading.”

According …

Last week, Missouri’s attorney general proposed reforms to address collection practices that he believes target low-income and minority residents.

Attorney General Chris Koster said he sent a letter to the Missouri Supreme Court’s Commission on Racial and Ethnic Fairness requesting changes in court rules that he said would help prevent unscrupulous collection practices.

“These proposed…

The Federal Trade Commission has announced the topics of the two panels at its upcoming Debt Collection Dialogue in Atlanta.  Sam Olens of the Office of the Georgia Attorney General will co-host the event.  Earlier Dialogues were held in Buffalo and Dallas.  This is the third and final scheduled Dialogue. 

The first panel in Atlanta, …

On November 11, Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III and the Tennessee Division of Consumer Affairs announced that it had settled allegations against credit card payment processor Elavon, Inc. to resolve claims that it violated state consumer protection laws by misrepresenting the cancellation policy of its credit card processing equipment leases, the duration …

On November 10, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman issued cease-and-desist letters to FanDuel and DraftKings, the two largest daily fantasy sports companies, demanding that they stop accepting bets in New York State. 

According to the letters, daily fantasy sports constitute illegal gambling in violation of both the New York Constitution (N.Y. Const. Art …

On November 4, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), 47 State Attorneys General, and other state and local law enforcement authorities from around the country announced the first coordinated federal-state enforcement initiative targeting deceptive and abusive debt collection practices. The initiative, named Operation Collection Protection, aims to crackdown on collectors who use illegal tactics…

On October 29, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed a complaint in the Southern District of California against Global Financial Support, Inc. and its owner and CEO, Armond Aria, for allegedly engaging in a nationwide student financial aid scam.   

The Bureau claims that Defendants violated the UDAAP provisions of the Consumer Financial Protection Act when …