SECOND COURT RULES TCPA UNCONSTITUTIONAL FOR CALLS MADE BEFORE JULY SCOTUS RULING
- Another District Court judge has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act case on the basis that calls made to an individual’s cell phone using an automated telephone dialing system before July 6 — when the Supreme Court ruled in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants — relinquished the court’s subject matter jurisdiction over the claims.
NCLC REPORT CALLS OUT STATES FOR POOR EXEMPTION PROTECTIONS
- You have to hand it to consumer advocacy groups. They know how to name a report that will grab everyone’s attention. The National Consumer Law Center yesterday released a report, “No Fresh Start 2020: Will States Let Debt Collectors Push Families Into Poverty In The Wake Of a Pandemic?” which grades each state on their exemption laws preventing income and assets from being seized. Bad news for the states: nobody received an ‘A’, and only nine states received a ‘B’, indicating they had “fairly strong” protections in most categories.
ADVOCACY GROUPS SUE CFPB OVER PAYDAY LENDING RULE CHANGES
- As the industry anxiously awaits the release of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s debt collection rule, another rule released by the Bureau is under attack from consumer advocates, in what could be a sign of what’s to come once the debt collection rule is released.
MINNESOTA AG SETTLES WITH HOSPITAL OVER ‘UNFAIR’ BILL COLLECTION PRACTICES
- The Attorney General of Minnesota has announced a settlement with Hutchison Hospital after it was accused of violating a regulatory agreement between the AG’s office and non-profit hospitals in the state by increasing patients’ payment plans, deactivating payment plans of patients who did not agree to new terms, and pressuring patients to take out loans or use retirement savings to pay off their medical debts.
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