Barquis v. Merchants Collection Assn.

Opinion

TOBRINER, J.

This action was commenced in the Superior Court of Alameda County in 1968 by six individual plaintiffs on behalf of themselves and other similarly situated persons against defendant Merchants Collection Association of Oakland, Inc. (Merchants), 1 a licensed collection agency, to challenge the agency’s alleged practice of knowingly and wilfully filing actions in improper counties, pursuant to statutorily inadequate complaints, for the purpose of impairing its adversaries’ ability to defend these actions, and with the intent, and effect, of obtaining an increased number of…