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Automated Due Process

By Bob Lawless

Many Credit Slips readers likely saw the article on automated debt collection by Andrew Martin of the New York Times. If you did not yet find it, you almost certainly will want to read because . . . well, you read this blog. Martin chronicles how many debt collection lawsuits have become an output of automated processes, complete with computer-generated summons and complaints. The result is a strain on court resources and automated due process for litigants. After a day of getting the new web design working, I'm too tired to write very much about the article, but I'll raise a question for the comments. Do we really need new laws or rules to stop the abuses Martin chronicles or does existing law already empower judges with the tools to stop abusive debt-collection suits?

Full post as published by Credit Slips on July 13, 2010 (boomark / email).