Legal Opinion
Baldassari v. Public Finance Trust
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 6, 1975PublishedCited by 121 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBraucher, J.
This is a consumer class action for an injunction and damages against a Massachusetts finance company and its out-of-State parent corporation, based on alleged collection of debts in an unfair, deceptive or unreasonable manner in violation of G. L. c. 93, § 49, inserted by St. 1970, c. 883, § 1. We review the procedure followed in the trial court under G. L. c. 93A, § 9, and Mass. R. Civ. P. 23, 365 Mass. 767 (1974), and hold that the action was properly dismissed both as a class action and as an individual action by the named plaintiffs under G. L. c. 93A, § 9 (1). The Baldassari claims, we…
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