Judge Sanctions Federal Consumer Bureau in Debt Collection Case
The Power of a Phone Call: Sanctions Against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau The beginning of the end was a phone call. After two years of aggressively going after payment processors for the alleged sins of debt collectors that used their services, the Bureau had spent the entire first day of its own deposition stonewalling every question and ignoring months
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SMITH is stoked to be featured in the inaugural publication of Lawyer’d, an international magazine exploring the culture of legal practice. In its first issue, Lawyer’d presents stories of “the
Krevolin & Horst LLC and SMITH LLC Announce Putative Class Action Litigation Against Insurers of Leased Automobiles
2/21/17
ATLANTA, Feb. 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- In a putative class action lawsuit pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, the Court has recognized that a person who l
Law360, New York (January 5, 2017, 4:42 PM EST) -- Pathfinder Payment Solutions Inc. on Wednesday asked a Georgia federal court to sanction the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for trying to hold it accountable for contractors that allegedly violated debt collection rules and facilitated illegal payments, arguing the CFPB never had proof Pathfinder acted wrongfully . . .
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