Gorsuch has unanimous first opinion for Supreme Court

[aggiesal]

Could not find this story anywhere on DU, but I think it's an important one.

Basically, SCOTUS ruled that buyers of defaulted upon loans are not debt collectors as defined in the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and therefore not subject to the requirements of that law.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/gorsuch-unanimous-opinion-supreme-court-47984626

[still_one]

1. So buyers of the loans can abuse those who defaulted

[aggiesal]

2. Ding, ding, ding, ding. ...

We have a winner!!!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. Only in a vague sense, in a link to a live blog yesterday.

Today at the Supreme Court: Live blog of orders and opinions - June 12, 2017

[Jake Stern]

4. Isn't this the second such ruling where the liberal justices sided with the conservatives

in order to fuck over the little guy along with the decision which basically allows Wall Street to take your money and keep it?

Are they being held at gun point or something?

[Bradical79]

5. Or the law is full of holes

They still have to work with the law as a base.

[Ms. Toad]

6. That's what it sounds like to me.

Or perhaps collection techniquest have changed to get around the law as originally written (which happens quite a lot - you plug a hole, and someone creates a new one).

So the law needs fix - when the law is statutory court's aren't supposed to create the law, merely interpret what Congress wrote..

[GulfCoast66]

11. If the vote is 9-0

The law was bad. Judges are not social activists.

[former9thward]

7. The Court's newest Justice is always assigned a unanimous decision for his first opinion.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. It was posted in LBN

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141797199

[aggiesal]

9. Thanks, ...

I searched for the story before I posted.
Couldn't find it.

I looked for
"debt collection"
not
"debt-collection"

[BumRushDaShow]

10. I ended up using "fair debt" as a search term

on regular google and found this thread and the LBN one!

I just remember reading it yesterday since I usually sit on DU's front page and read the news posts most of the time.