E.D.N.Y. Judge Warns Frequent-Filer Plaintiffs' Firm: Continue Filing Frivolous Cases Like This and You'll Get Sanctioned

You can add Judge Frederic Bock to the list of judges within the Eastern District of New York (E.D.N.Y.) who are getting tired of the endless, hyper-technical "lawyer's cases" that come across their dockets alleging Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) violations. Last week in an order that dismissing the case of Leifer v. United Collection Bureau, Inc., Judge Bock stopped short of issuing sanctions against the firm but gave a stern warning to Barshay Sanders PLLC about filing frivolous litigation. 

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As we all took our first pass at reading through the 653-page-long release of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (Bureau or CFPB) final debt collection rule, most of our eyes immediately went to sections that cause complexity in implementation and practicality. That's a natural reaction for a businessperson trying to identify how to comply with a regulation as robust as this. However, it's also important to take a step back and look at the rule as a whole. Doing so, it's impossible to ignore the many things that the Bureau got right. Below is a list of just a few.

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