Legal Opinion
De Dios v. International Realty & Investments
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 11, 2011No. 08-56288PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:
Congress passed the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (the “Act”) to “eliminate abusive debt collection practices by debt collectors.” 15 U.S.C. § 1692(e). The Act broadly applies to any business that uses an instrumentality of interstate commerce to collect a debt on its own or another’s behalf. Id. § 1692a(6). This appeal centers around one of several narrow exclusions in the Act, which exempts as a debt collector any person collecting “a debt which was not in default at the time it was obtained by such person.” Id. § 1692a(6)(F)(iii) (emphasis added). We…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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- Holgate v. BaldwinCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2005
- Atel Financial Corp., a California Corporation v. Quaker Coal Company, a Kentucky CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2003
- Chad Schlosser and Frances Schlosser v. Fairbanks Capital CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2003
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