Fed. Trade Comm'n v. Alliance Document Preparation

*1201 This matter is before the Court on the Court's Order to Show Cause Why a Preliminary Injunction Should Not Issue. Defendants Alliance Document Preparation ("Alliance"), SBS Capital Group, Inc. ("SBS"), First Student Aid, LLC ("First Student"), (collectively, "Corporate Defendants"), Benjamin Naderi (collectively, with Corporate Defendants, "Defendants"), and Relief Defendants Direct Consulting Group, LLC ("Direct"), and Capital Doc Prep, LLC ("Capital") (collectively, "Relief Defendants") opposed the entry of a preliminary injunction ("Opposition") on October 18, 2017. Plaintiff's replied on October 23, 2017 ("Reply"). The Court read and considered the papers and held a hearing on the Order to Show Cause on November 1, 2017. For the following reasons, the Order to Show Cause is discharged and the requested preliminary injunction shall issue.

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

On September 27, 2017, the Federal Trade Commission filed the instant action alleging violation of both Section Five of the Federal Trade Commission Act and the Telemarketing Sales Rule. Defendants are a group of several corporations and individuals, all engaged in the business of student loan debt…