Sat.Feb 12, 2022

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How Long Is Too Long? District Court Holds Motion to Dismiss Stage Cannot Decide FDCPA’s Exception for Lack of Response From Debtor’s Attorney

Troutman Sanders

A Georgia district court judge recently granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss all claims except for one in Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) case Lee v. Medicredit. The court held that what constitutes a “reasonable period of time” for lack of response from a consumer’s attorney cannot be decided at the motion to dismiss stage. In Lee v. Medicredit , the court examined the exception under the FDCPA, which allows communication from a debt collector when the attorney fails to respond wi

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Anita Allen Article on Race and Online Privacy

Public Citizen

Anita L. Allen of Penn has written Dismantling the Black Opticon: Race Equity and Online Privacy and Data Protection Reform, forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal.   Here's the abstract: In the opening decades of the 21st century popular online platforms rapidly transformed the world. These platforms have come with benefits, but a heavy price to information privacy and data protection.

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