Legal Opinion
Wendelyn Harvey v. Great Seneca Financial Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 6, 2006No. 05-3970PublishedCited by 193 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RONALD LEE GILMAN, Circuit Judge.
This is a lawsuit brought under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) against a debt collector, Great Seneca Financial Corporation (Seneca), and its law firm, Javitch, Block & Rathbone, L.L.P. (Javitch). Wendelyn Harvey claimed that Seneca and Javitch violated both the FDCPA and the Ohio Consumer Sales Practices Act (OCSPA) by filing “a lawsuit to collect a purported debt without the means of proving the existence of the debt, the amount of the debt, or that Seneca owned the debt.” Seneca and Javitch raised a number of defenses to Harvey’s…
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