Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Statewide Collections, Inc.
Wyoming Supreme Court
Decided July 21, 1989No. 88-285PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMAS, Justice.
This case, one of first impression in Wyoming, presents questions relating to the applicability of the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), 15 U.S.C. §§ 1692 to 1692o (1977), relating to abusive, deceptive, and unfair debt collection practices to the efforts of a Wyoming collection agency to collect a check upon which the drawer had stopped payment. A threshold question challenges the jurisdiction of the district court to review a decision of a county court in a case brought under the small claims statutes, §§ 1-21-201 to 1-21-205, W.S.1977. In addition, an…
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