Supreme Court: No Bad Faith Needed to Award Costs in FDCPA Cases | Practical Law
The US Supreme Court held in Marx v. General Revenue Corp. that Section 1692k(a)(3) of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) did not displace the district court’s discretion to award costs under Rule 54(d)(1) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) despite no finding of bad faith.