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FDPCA & FCRA Lawsuits On the Rise

September 23, 2009

The number of FDCPA and FCRA lawsuits filed in 2009 is well ahead of both 2008 and 2007. In July 2009, the 5000th suit was filed. In 2008, that benchmark was not hit until the second week of October; in 2007 it took until early December.
So what is behind the surge? Here are my best [...]

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Unifund averages nearly 5,500 collection lawsuits a year in California alone

November 28, 2007

Want to know just how many lawsuits are filed by the debt collection industry? Well, in a document I just received, Unifund admitted to filing 14,172 collection lawsuits in California between January 1, 2004 and July 31, 2006! That is over 450 lawsuits per month and nearly 5,500 per year!
Of the total, Unifund obtained almost [...]

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Juries bad at judging guilt and innocence?

July 2, 2007

The answer is yes, according to Bruce Spencer, professor of statistics at Northwestern University. Spencer purports to arrive at the accuracy of jury verdicts (PDF link) by comparing the jury verdict to a judge’s opinion of the correct answer. Spencer then does a lot of fancy math and flings about some casual assumptions like juries [...]

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