Calling out attorneys with the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for their “blatant disregard” for judicial instructions, a federal judge in Atlanta has sanctioned the agency by dismissing four payment-processing companies from its ongoing case against debt collection agencies in Georgia and New York.
In an order handed down Friday, U.S. District Judge Richard Story held that the consumer protection agency “willfully violated” his repeated instructions to identify the factual basis for its claims against multiple defendants. Story also chastised the agency for its “willful” failure to make a knowledgeable witness speak on behalf of the agency at depositions sought by the defendants.
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