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Trends In FDCPA Litigation Filed Against HOA Attorneys

FDCPA Defense

1992) (emphasis added, citation and quotation marks omitted) (personal loan from friend used to start software business not a “debt” under the Act: “Neither the lender's motives nor the fashion in which the loan is memorialized are dispositive of this inquiry.”). Litton Loan Serv. Federal Home Loan Mortg. System, Inc.,

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What Are “Actual Damages” Under the FCCPA and the FDCPA?

Jimerson Firm

6:15-CV-1951-ORL-40GJK, 2017 WL 10350673, at *3 (M.D. The court found that the plaintiffs suffered for over two-and-a-half-years with stress, anxiety, and sleeplessness as a result of the defendant’s misrepresentations regarding the amount of debt owed, which peaked when the defendant filed a foreclosure action. See Baumann v.

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Emerging Trends In FDCPA Litigation Against Community Association Attorneys

FDCPA Defense

Determining the line between foreclosure activity and debt collection, however, can be elusive. 2017), petition for cert. 21, 2017) (No. 17- 278) was whether notices sent by a trustee as required to initiate a non-judicial foreclosure under California law violated the FDCPA. Riexinger & Associates, LLC , 817 F.3d

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For Attorneys Representing Community Associations: A Primer On FDCPA Class Actions And How To Avoid Them

FDCPA Defense

(This post is adopted from the materials presented at the CAI Law Seminar in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 20, 2017) Demystifying the FDCPA Class Action For HOA Attorneys Consumer attorneys have been filing FDCPA class actions against collection attorneys for decades, and the pace of those filings has increased sharply in the past ten years.

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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services COVID-19 Newsletter

Troutman Sanders

Our bank and loan servicing clients also face novel challenges affecting their industry due to COVID-19, particularly the ever-changing rules and regulations concerning evictions and foreclosures. If confirmed by the Senate, Uejio would replace 2017 Trump appointee Anna Maria Farias. For more information, click here.