A federal judge in Atlanta has rejected a Marietta lawyer’s efforts to dismiss a federal agency’s suit contending that his firm is little more than a litigation mill to collect millions of dollars a year from consumers who either don’t owe the debts in question or may not owe the amounts claimed.
Bolstered by a recent ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg on Wednesday held that lawyers and law firms who regularly attempt to collect defaulted debts must comply with the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. The consumer protection law bars debt collectors from engaging in false, misleading or deceptive litigation practices in order to collect debts.
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