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Debt collections may not be the most enjoyable part of back office operations, but it's absolutely necessary. Unfortunately, some of your business clients will miss a payment or more due to various reasons. If you've signed an agreement and fulfilled your part, they still owe you. What happens when business debt goes to collections?
A District Court judge in Pennsylvania has dismissed a plaintiff’s Fair Debt Collection Practices Act suit on his own, without even needing a motion from the defendant, ruling the plaintiff’s attempt to sue the defendant after it obtained a default judgment is “not plausible.” A copy of the ruling in the case of Grooms v.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has fired its opening salvo in defense of its funding structure, arguing in its brief to the Supreme Court that the ruling from the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit was “flawed” and “has no support in text, history, or precedent” and should be overturned.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is part of a series that is sponsored by WebRecon. WebRecon identifies serial plaintiffs lurking in your database BEFORE you contact them and expose yourself to a likely lawsuit. Protect your company from as many as one in three new consumer lawsuits by scrubbing your consumers through WebRecon first. Want to learn more?
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