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Account Recovery
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
is pushing the Department of Justice to implement new guidance related to how student loan debts are handled when individuals file for bankruptcy protection, saying the department needs “to do its part to ensure that borrowers who continue to struggle with student debt have a path toward additional relief.” Elizabeth Warren [D-Mass.]
Sawin & Shea
AUGUST 30, 2023
What is Bankruptcy? Bankruptcy is an opportunity for someone to forge their way through what seems like an impossible debt-ridden situation and come out the other side. Although businesses can also declare bankruptcy, we will focus on personal bankruptcy in this article. Which Debts Cannot be Discharged in Bankruptcy?
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Account Recovery
OCTOBER 26, 2021
A District Court judge in Florida has denied a defendant’s motion for judgment on the pleadings in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case for allegedly disregarded cease-and-desist letters sent by an individual after receiving text messages and collection letters from the defendant while the individual had a pending bankruptcy petition.
Account Recovery
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
Collection operation and contact center business-process outsourcing provider iQor filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday, seeking approval of a pre-packaged plan that would provide the company with $130 million of funding to reorganize itself and continue operating.
In the Red
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
. Each year amendments are made to the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure, which govern how bankruptcy cases are managed. The amendments address issues identified by an Advisory Committee made up of federal judges, bankruptcy attorneys, and others. The rule amendments are ultimately adopted by the U.S.
In the Red
JULY 6, 2022
I recently had the honor of talking with the American Bankruptcy Institute’s Editor-at-Large Bill Rochelle about the intersection of intellectual property and bankruptcy, as part of ABI’s Industry Viewpoints video series. Photo courtesy of the American Bankruptcy Institute. Bill and I discussed issues ranging from the U.S.
Account Recovery
JANUARY 26, 2022
A report that has been published by the Student Borrower Protection Center suggests that there are “tens of billions” of dollars in unpaid student loans that are eligible to be discharged via the bankruptcy process and that “industry schemes have robbed borrowers of their right to discharge.”
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