Legal Opinion
Gallego v. Northland Group Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 22, 2016No. 15-1666-CVPublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GERARD E. LYNCH, Circuit Judge:
In this putative class action, plaintiff-appellant Jeffrey J. Gallego alleges that defendant-appellee Northland Group Inc. (“Northland”) violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”), 15 U.S.C. §§ 1692 et seq., by sending him and other class members a debt collection letter that gave a call-back number but did not specify the name of the person at that number. Before a responsive pleading was filed, Gallego and Northland sought to settle the matter on a classwide basis. The district court denied class eertifiea*125tion, and then dismissed the complaint…
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