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Maryland Federal Court Grants Summary Judgment to Debt Collector Who Provided Validation Upon Receipt of Dispute Letter

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In a recent decision, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland granted summary judgment in favor of a debt collector who responded to a debtor’s letter disputing and refusing to pay a debt by providing validation...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Federal Court Applies Nevada’s Interest Statute in FDCPA Case

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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

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Bargained-For Consent: An Increasingly Viable Defense to TCPA Claims

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• In most TCPA cases, a threshold question is whether a called party has provided prior express consent to receive calls (or texts) using an automatic telephone dialing system. • While numerous courts have ruled that a party...more

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District Court of Connecticut Follows Reyes Decision

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In Harris v. Navient Solutions, LLC, No. 3:15-cv-564 (RNC), 2018 WL 3748155 (D. Conn. Aug. 7, 2018), the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut followed the Second Circuit’s decision in Reyes v. Lincoln...more

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Northern District of Alabama Holds Contractual Consent Cannot Be Revoked Under TCPA

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The Northern District of Alabama recently followed the Second Circuit’s holding in Reyes v. Lincoln Automotive Financial Services, 861 F.3d 51 (2d Cir. 2017), and held that consent provided in a contract as part of a...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Breakthrough: First District Court in Eleventh Circuit Follows Reyes and Holds Contractual TCPA Consent Cannot Be Revoked

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What a day for contractual consent provisions! Just hours after the Czar wrote about a positive development around “Good Reyes” (Reyes v. Lincoln Auto. Fin. Servs., 861 F.3d 51 (2d Cir. 2017), as amended (Aug. 21, 2017)) came...more

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