New York’s Appellate Division, Second Department, ruled short sale documents do not constitute an unqualified acknowledgment of the debt or manifest a promise to repay the debt sufficient to reset the statute of limitations...more
The Second Circuit held that a debt collector’s follow-up questions regarding the nature of a consumer’s verbal dispute of a debt in an attempt to resolve the issue did not rise to the level of a misleading or abusive...more
Action Item: The Ninth Circuit reversed the Arizona District Court’s summary judgment in favor of a defendant debt collector in an action under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. In a case of first impression, the Ninth...more