Legal Opinion
Van Westrienen v. Americontinental Collection Corp.
District Court, D. Oregon
Decided April 12, 2000No. CV-99-819-STPublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
STEWART, United States Magistrate Judge.
INTRODUCTION
Plaintiffs, Kenneth and Deborah Van Westrienen, allege that defendants, Ameri-continental Collection Corporation (“Amer-icontinental”) and Phillip Allan Fischer, aka “Gus McTavish” (“Fischer”), violated the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”), 15 USC § 1692-1692k, and the Oregon Unlawful Debt Collection Practices Act (“UDCPA”), ORS 646.639-.641, while attempting to collect a debt allegedly owed by plaintiffs to John Saa-thoff (“Saathoff’).
This court has federal question jurisdiction over the FDCPA claim…
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