Legal Opinion
Patricia Evankavitch v. Green Tree Servicing LLC
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided July 13, 2015No. 14-1114PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
KRAUSE, Circuit Judge.
Under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”), 15 U.S.C. § 1692, et seq., a debt collector is liable to a consumer for contacting third parties in pursuit of that' consumer’s debt unless the communication falls under a statutory exception. One of those exceptions covers communication with a third party “for the purpose of acquiring location information about the consumer” but, even then, prohibits more than one such contact “unless the debt collector reasonably believes that the earli er response of such person is erroneous or incomplete and…
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