3rd Try At FDCPA Suit Fails To Resolve Central Question

By Amy Hanna Keeney and Joshua Lesser ( December 6, 2022, 4:56 PM EST) -- Those in the financial services, vendor management and consumer protection spaces have heard of Richard Hunstein v. Preferred Collection and Management Services Inc. and that case's rare three trips to a federal appellate court in an effort to answer this question: Does the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act[1] apply to prohibit the very routine communications between a debt collector and its vendors? . . .

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