Legal Opinion
Francis Gutierrez and Joseph Rydel v. At&t Broadband, LLC and Communications and Cable of Chicago, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 28, 2004No. 03-3484PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
I. History
Francis Gutierrez and Joseph Rydel both contracted for cable television service with an entity known to them only as “AT&T Broadband.”1 Both disputed charges that appeared on their cable bills, both refused to pay, and both accounts were ultimately turned over to Credit Protection Association (“CPA”), a third-party collections agency. The letters they received from CPA represented that it was *730collecting debts on behalf of “AT&T Broadband.”
Unknown to Gutierrez and Rydel, “AT&T Broadband” was not the name of a real entity or their actual creditor. Instead, it was…
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