During
D.C.’s declared State of Public Health Emergency, several financial protections
have been put in place, including some that severely limit, among other things,
collection activities relating to consumer contracts, repossession, and legal
actions on accounts. On September 1, Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the most
recent pair of emergency and temporary legislation to land on her desk,
B24-0347 and B24-0348. These bills include a number of provisions
impacting collection activities that relate to both third-party debt collectors
and creditors collecting their own debts. Since a permanent version of
these bills, B24-0357, remains in the Council, the bills signed by the Mayor on
September 1 only temporarily amend various provisions of D.C. 28-3814, D.C.’s collections
statute.
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ARM industry start-up, Spring Oaks Capital, set out to do things differently, but it had no idea that it would launch a new company on the cusp of a worldwide pandemic. Jay Collins, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Spring Oaks Capital, stops by #Creditecotogo to highlight the successes his company has had despite the challenges of COVID.
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Well
TCPAWorld, we have another great post-Facebook case
for you. Franco v. Alorica Inc., No.
2:20-CV-05035-DOC-(KESx), 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 164438 (C.D. Cal. July 27,
2021) used the Supreme Court’s Facebook ATDS
definition and the Northern
District of California’s recent ruling in Hufnus
v. DoNotPay, Inc., 2021 WL 2585488 (N.D. Cal. June 24, 2021) to find that
when a defendant randomly makes calls from a curated list, it is not randomly
or sequentially generating phone
numbers as is required under Facebook.
Exciting stuff.
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