Legal Opinion
National Revenue Corporation v. Arlene Violet, Attorney General of the State of Rhode Island
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 18, 1986No. 86-1422PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAILEY ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.
Before addressing the questions in this case, all of which are of a strictly legal nature, we state an overview. Plaintiff, National Revenue Corp., is an Ohio corporation engaged nation-wide in the debt-collection business. In late 1980 it inquired as to the steps necessary to operate in Rhode Island and was informed by the state banking commissioner that because a Rhode Island statute, G.L. c. 11-27, defined debt collecting as the practice of law, plaintiff, as a non-member of the Rhode Island bar, was foreclosed. Plaintiff brought an action in the…
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