Lawyers whose principal business is mortgage foreclosure or who regularly handle mortgage foreclosures are “debt collectors” subject to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit...more
1/24/2013
- CFPB Debt Collectors FDCPA Foreclosure Mortgages
I am at the ABA Consumer Financial Services Committee’s meeting in Naples, Florida. (There is record attendance at this year’s meeting—nearly 225 consumer financial services lawyers. I am sure that the CFPB deserves some...more
1/7/2013
- CFPB
The Federal Trade Commission recently announced that it entered into a settlement with Epic Marketplace, Inc., (Epic) an online advertising company, of charges that its "history sniffing" practices violated Section 5 of the...more
12/13/2012
- Behavioral Advertising Browser History Sniffing FTC