On 8 September 2022, sitting en banc, the Eleventh Circuit held that a debt collector’s communication of a customer’s information to the debt collector’s private, third-party commercial mail vendor was not actionable under...more
On defendant’s petition for rehearing in Hunstein v. Preferred Collection and Management Services, Inc., a panel of the 11th Circuit recently issued a new, but not improved, decision involving the Fair Debt Collection...more
The rapid spread of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (“COVID-19”) has caused unprecedented disruptions to the U.S. economy, both at the state and national levels. On March 10, 2020, the Governor of Massachusetts declared a State...more
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court recently held in Dorrian v. LVNV Funding, LLC, that “passive debt buyers” are not “debt collectors” required to be licensed under the Massachusetts Fair Debt Collection Practices Act...more