The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a joint amicus brief in November in a big case involving alleged debt collection violations in the use of affidavits and process serving in collection lawsuits against consumers. According to a federal judge in Manhattan, a debt buyer and collection law firm used “sewer service” to deny consumers their right to defend collection lawsuits in court. The case, Monique Sykes et all., vs Mel Harris & Associates, LLC et al., alleges that Mel Harris, a collection law firm, used a process server that purposefully did not serve […]
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