The Debt Collection Pandemic

P Foohey, D Jiménez, CK Odinet - Calif. L. Rev. Online, 2020 - HeinOnline
… State attorneys general typically have enforcement power, and can use the statues, as in
the case of Massachusetts,11 9 to police debt collection activities during the pandemic. Even if …

The Debt Collection Outbreak: Recommendations for Idaho in Response to COVID-19

M Brakes - Available at SSRN 3751680, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
… States participating and partnering in reporting actions include Arizona, California, Colorado,
… When the legislature convenes on January 11, 2021, Idaho’s lawmakers should consider …

Decreasing Supply to the Assembly Line of Debt Collection Litigation

D Jiménez - Harv. L. Rev. F., 2021 - HeinOnline
… in 2020, during a global pandemic that shut down many state courts. … In Part II of this
Response, I discuss Wilf-Townsend's … law that would "kill" the ability of debt collectors to pursue a …

Pathways to Financial Security: A New Legal Avenue for Survivors of Coerced Debt in California

M Park - Cal. L. Rev., 2023 - HeinOnline
… of modern credit-granting and debt collection practices and California's identity theft laws.
Ultimately, coerced debt puts … Part II surveys existing remedies available to victims of coerced …

Personal Debt and Social Housing: Pandemic Relief as Decommodification

E Bull - Rutgers UL Rev., 2023 - HeinOnline
… The California legislature passed a similar bill … , debt collection and debt are marked by
racial disparity.95 Apart from a sense that repaying debts is the right thing to do, debt collection is …

Debt, race, and physical mobility

KS Elengold - Cal. L. Rev., 2024 - HeinOnline
… and the editors at the California Law Review, who made the … the debt burden during and
after the COVID-19 pandemic. … of the stateare necessary for debt collection and enforcement. …

Putting Railroad Justice Back on Track

S Issacharoff - NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper …, 2025 - papers.ssrn.com
… “top filers”11 across a sample of states, ten debt collectors or … One of the fortunate by-products
of the COVID pandemic is … For example, in California, licensed debt collectors are …

Pleadings in a Pandemic: The Role, Regulation, and Redesign of Eviction Court Documents

DW Bernal - Okla. L. Rev., 2020 - HeinOnline
… Part I describes the contribution this Article makes to existing research in landlord-tenant
law, legal design, and civil justice. Part II describes the results of an empirical study analyzing …

Protecting consumers from zombie-debt collectors

NL Sobol - NML Rev., 2014 - HeinOnline
… IMDB describes the "ever-growing epidemic of zombies" in the Dawn of the Dead. Dawn of
the Dead, IMDB, http:// www.… Part II discusses how consumers can assert that their disputed …

Unfair, Abusive, and Unlawful: Protecting Debtors and Society from Unrestrained Bank Account Garnishment

K Green - Fordham L. Rev., 2022 - HeinOnline
… 19 pandemic, nearly seventy million Americans had a debt in … to collect debt and discusses
the role of debt collection in … In conclusion, Part II.A has discussed the conflicting approaches …