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Nevada Federal Court Denies Antitrust Conspiracy Based on Use of a Pricing Algorithm

In what will be one of the most important decisions in antitrust since the proliferation of algorithm software, on May 8, 2024, Chief Judge Miranda Du of the United States District Court, District of Nevada, granted the hotel...more

Hunstein Decision Informs Financial Services Industry Use of Third Party Vendors

More than a year ago on April 21, 2021, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion in Hunstein v. Preferred Collection and Management Services Inc. that rocked the world of the debt collection industry, and the...more

Debt Collection Companies Beware: A Slew of Lawsuits Are Coming

Yesterday, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion in Hunstein v. Preferred Collection and Management Services, Inc., -- F.3d --, 2021 WL 1556069 (Apr. 21, 2021), which almost immediately set off alarms in the...more

Consumer Credit and Coronavirus – What Lenders and Collectors Need to Know

Many companies in the consumer credit industry have quickly responded to the coronavirus pandemic and its impact to their borrowers. As lenders, collectors and debt buyers think about how to provide meaningful relief while...more

Brownstein Attorneys Advise on Updates to 40-Year-Old FDCPA

On Tuesday evening, Sept. 17, ACA International filed a 155-page comment to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (“Bureau”) proposed debt collection rule. The comment advocates for consumers, creditors and a stable U.S....more

CFPB and FCC Disconnect: Debt Collection and Call Blocking

On May 21, the CFPB published its long-awaited proposed rule on debt collection practices (“Proposed Rule”) in large part to address application of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”) to modern collection issues....more

Federal Court Applies Nevada’s Interest Statute in FDCPA Case

Debt collectors are often at the mercy of their client’s customer contracts when collecting a debt. We often encourage debt collectors to work with their clients to fashion consumer contracts that avoid or minimize FDCPA risk...more

The Fourth Circuit Strikes TCPA’s Government Debt Collection Exception

Late last month, we warned that pending litigation in the Fourth and Ninth Circuits seeking to have the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) declared unconstitutional based on the statutory government debt collection...more

Colorado Bill Significantly Broadens Scope of the Consumer Protection Act

Eliminates ‘Significant Public Impact’ Requirement - With legislation proposed last week, Colorado is poised to go from having one of the more conservative consumer protection acts in the county to potentially having one...more

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