WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) on Wednesdayreintroduced legislation to strengthen consumer protections and reform medical debt practices.
On November 14, 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in connection with the Fifth Circuit’s recent decision in Community Financial, which held that the CFPB’s funding structure violated the Constitution’s Appropriations Clause.
On November 21, 2022, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) issued a declaratory ruling finding that “ringless voicemails” to wireless telephones require consumer consent because they are “calls” made using an artificial or prerecorded voice, and thus are covered by the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act, 47 U.S.C. § 227 (TCPA)
ACA International is pushing back on a petition from the National Consumer Law Center, which asks the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for a rule banning medical debts from credit reports.
Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced that his office, along with a coalition of other state attorneys general, has obtained settlements totaling more than $16 million with Experian Data Corp., Experian Information Solutions, and T-Mobile.
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