Legal Opinion
Janetos v. Fulton Friedman & Gullace, LLP
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 7, 2016No. 15-1859PublishedCited by 106 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.
Section 1692g(a)(2) of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1692 et seq., requires a debt collector to disclose to a consumer “the name of the creditor to whom the debt is owed,” either in its initial communication with the consumer or in a written notice sent within the next five days. When defendant Fulton Friedman & Gullace, LLP set out to collect debts from the plaintiffs on behalf of creditor Asset Acceptance, LLC, it sent them letters that identified Asset Acceptance as the “assignee” of the original creditors but said that the plaintiffs’ accounts…
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