The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit reversed a district court ruling and upheld a $6 million arbitration judgment against a mortgage servicer accused of abusive debt collection practices in a foreclosure action against a bankrupt Kansas City couple. In an Aug. 26 ruling in Stark v. Sandberg, Phoenix & Von Gontard, the circuit court concluded that the 1999 arbitration agreement between the Starks and their home-equity lender “unambiguously permitted” the award of