Debt collectors can’t put a CFPB advisory opinion barring the collection of some past-due medical bills on hold while litigation over the guidance moves forward, a federal judge ruled Monday.
Judge Dabney R. Friedrich of the US District Court for the District of Columbia denied a request for a preliminary injunction filed by ACA International Inc., a debt collection trade group, and other debt collector plaintiffs in a ruling from the bench.
The ruling came after a telephone hearing the same day. Friedrich didn’t file an order outlining her reasoning for denying the request.
“In today’s decision and the CFPB’s ...