Legal Opinion
Bridge v. Ocwen Federal Bank, FSB
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided April 30, 2012No. 09-4220PublishedCited by 102 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtStranch, J., joined by Barrett, D.J.,
CLAY, J. (pp. 364-67) delivered a separate opinion concurring in part.
OPINION
JANE B. STRANCH, Circuit Judge.
The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act was passed to protect consumers against both abusive and mistaken collection activity. This case reveals why. It began with seemingly innocuous accounting errors on the part of a bank that were corrected. Despite repeated proof of that correction, unremitting collection activity was undertaken, foreclosure proceedings were instituted, and the credit of two consumers was seriously impaired. This litigation resulted.
Lisa Bridge and William W. Bridge,…
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