Legal Opinion
Garrett v. Derbes
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 23, 1997No. 96-30737PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Per curiam
In early April 1993, Bell South Mobility retained the law firm of Richard S. Derbes, A Professional Law Corporation, to collect delinquent telephone bills from certain customers. Over the next nine months, Richard S. Derbes, on behalf of the law firm, mailed approximately 639 demand letters to individual customers of Bell South. Daniel Garrett received one of these demand letters and then filed an action against Derbes and his law firm (jointly, “Derbes”) alleging several violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1692 et seq.
The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act…
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