Attorney General Maura Healey from enforcing emergency regulation 940 CMR 35.00, which prohibits certain debt collection activities, including debt collection calls, for a period of 90 days beginning on March 26, 2020 (until...more
On April 17, 2020, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey promulgated emergency regulation 940 CMR 35.00 to address “unfair and deceptive debt collection practices during the state of emergency caused by COVID-19.” The...more
U.S. District Court Judge Richard Stearns issued an order on May 6, 2020, finding that the two primary features of the Massachusetts Attorney General's COVID-19 debt collection regulation — a ban on debt collector initiated...more
ACA International (ACA), the Association of Credit and Collection Professionals, filed a complaint on April 20, 2020, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts challenging the validity of the recently...more
On July 10, 2017, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida entered a temporary restraining? order (“TRO”) halting operations and freezing the assets of a debt collection operation, at the request of the...more