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Matthew T. Anderson,
David Anthony
On August 16, Judge Freda L. Wolfson of the District of New Jersey ruled that a consumer plaintiff's claim that insurance language overshadowed the required debt validation warning can proceed.
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David Anthony,
Virginia Bell Flynn,
Chad Fuller,
David Gettings,
Michael Lacy,
John Lynch,
Alan Wingfield
On September 20, 2018, the Ninth Circuit in Marks v. Crunch San Diego, LLC (Case: 14-56834), overturned a lower court's ruling that a text messaging system ...
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David Gettings,
Julie Hoffmeister,
John Lynch,
Meagan Mihalko,
Ronald Raether Jr.,
Timothy St. George,
Alan Wingfield,
Jonathan Yee
Employers and consumer reporting agencies beware: a change to a commonly used form required by the FCRA becomes effective on September 21, 2018, and the price of non-compliance could be class action lawsuits.
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David Anthony,
Alice Grabe
The Southern District of West Virginia recently held that the reporting of an account being paid through a Chapter 13 bankruptcy
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Lena Mualla
Currently, some courts allow borrowers to bring Fair Debt Collection Practices Act claims for non-judicial foreclosures while other courts do not, but that is about to change.
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Robert Angle
On July 19, the Trump Administration's nominee for director of the CFPB, Kathy Kraninger, faced harsh scrutiny from Democrats on the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs...
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Keith Barnett,
Robert S. Claiborne, Jr.
The subject of marijuana and banking has garnered more and more attention as an increasing number of States decriminalize or legalize its use, medicinally and recreationally.
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Amanda K. Blackmon,
David Gettings,
Alan Wingfield
The Third Circuit recently applied the D.C. Circuit's decision in ACA International v. FCC and granted summary judgment in favor of the defendant in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act claim.
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David Anthony,
Amir Shachmurove
On June 6, the Consumer Advisory Board's twenty-two members were informed that they would no longer serve on the CAB and could not reapply for their former positions.
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Amir Shachmurove
As designed and envisioned, student loan ombudsmen are government officials tasked with helping borrowers struggling with repaying their student loans.
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Ebony Dryver
The Federal Trade Commission recently reached a settlement agreement with a Los Angeles-based company purporting to offer student loan debt relief services for alleged violations...
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Amir Shachmurove
As the student loan total keeps climbing and Congress keeps debating what to do, advice from all corners keeps bombarding the nation's desperate borrowers. Some tout the use of crowdfunding via sites ...
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David Anthony,
Maryia Jones,
Alan Wingfield
On May 31, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a $150,000 sanctions award against three consumer attorneys and their law firms for bad faith conduct and misrepresentations.
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Amir Shachmurove
On March 31, 2018 the United States crossed a milestone. As of that date, Americans' student loan debt topped $1.5 trillion, exceeding the share of consumer debt held by auto loans ($1.1 trillion) ...
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Amir Shachmurove
As disclosed in a notification filed on May 3, in FMS Investment Corp. v. United States ("the Notice"), the Department of Education ("DOE") will soon stop using private debt collectors to handle overdue student loan payments.
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