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Application Denied: Monday's verdict from the high court? Thanks, but no thanks. The Supreme Court declined to review an appeals court decision over whether debt collectors must follow state usury laws, making way for a class-action suit to proceed back in district court. For now, the industry remains in limbo.
"We're sort of at halftime of the game here. And we still need to see how the second half of the game plays out," Brian Korn, a partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, told
The plaintiff, Saliha Madden, has argued that Midland Funding, a debt collector that bought troubled loans from Bank of America, could not charge a 27 percent interest rate on her charged-off credit card debt under the law in her home state of New York. A federal appeals court ruled in Madden's favor last May, spurring fears about whether the decision could be extended to apply to marketplace lenders and others in consumer finance.
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