Eleventh Circuit Reaffirms its Prior Ruling that Debt Collectors who File Time-Barred Proofs of Claim are Subject to Liability Under the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act, and Further Concludes its Holding does not Place the FDCPA in Conflict with the B
The Creditors Rights
AUGUST 2, 2016
In 2014 the Eleventh Circuit held that a debt collector violates the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act when it filed a proof of claim in a chapter 13 case on a debt that it knows to be time-barred. Crawford v. LVNV Funding, LLC , 758 F.3d 3d 1254 (11 th Circ. Travelers Cas. & Gas & Elec. 443 (2007). 552 (1990).
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