According to a report from leading litigation-monitoring service WebRecon, Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) filings have begun to outnumber Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) filings across the country in recent months. This development represents a drastic shift in consumer protection
In Hagy v. Demers & Adams, the Sixth Circuit looked to Spokeo, Inc. v. Robbins to hold that not all inaccuracies cause real harm sufficient to confer standing to bring suit under the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act (FDCPA).
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In Ratliff v. A&R Logistics, Inc., the plaintiff claimed A&R denied him a job based on a background check without the appropriate adverse action process. Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), notice pre- and post-adverse action must occur under
Last year, the United States Supreme Court held that the FDCPA’s unique restrictions on debt collectors do not necessarily translate well in the world of bankruptcy. In Midland Funding. LLC v. Johnson, 137 S. Ct. 1407 (2017)—a case our firm
For our overview of the full D.C. Circuit opinion in ACA International v. FCC, click here. Here, we address one significant component of the decision: the D.C. Circuit’s confirmation that consumers may revoke consent to call by any reasonable
For our overview of the full D.C. Circuit opinion in ACA International v. FCC, click here. This article addresses the Court’s reversal of over a decade of confusion regarding autodialers. The TCPA defines an autodialer (automatic telephone dialing system,
For our overview of the full D.C. Circuit opinion in ACA International v. FCC, click here. Here, we examine the D.C. Circuit’s reversal of not simply the one-call safe harbor for reassigned numbers imposed by the FCC’s 2015 TCPA
In a watershed case, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit) unwound key components of the controversial 2015 ruling by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) that greatly expanded the reach of the Telephone
