In a stunning rebuke to the Massachusetts Attorney General, a federal district court has temporarily enjoined the Attorney General from enforcing its no-call rule.
While the case will continue, and everyone will need to decide next best steps for Massachusetts collections, per his Order Judge Stearns enjoined the Massachusetts Attorney General from enforcing the regulation, finding the rule was a constitutional violation of free speech:
While I laud the Attorney General's desire to protect citizens of Massachusetts during a time of financial and emotional stress created by the Covid-19 pandemic, I do not believe that the Regulation adds anything to their protections that the existing comprehensive scheme of law and regulation already affords to debtors, other than an unconstitutional ban on one form of communication.
As of this moment, debt collectors should be free to follow existing Massachusetts law and resume calling Massachusetts consumers.

Click here to read the ruling.

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