Legal Opinion
Portalatin v. Blatt, Hasenmiller, Leibsker & Moore, LLC
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 13, 2018No. Nos. 16-1578 & 17-3335PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Manion, Circuit Judge.
Iwona Portalatin allegedly owed $1,330.75 in consumer debt. In October 2013 the law firm of Blatt, Hasenmiller, Leibsker & Moore, LLC ("Blatt") on behalf of its client Midland Funding, LLC ("Midland") filed a debt-collection suit against Portalatin in downtown Chicago at the Richard J. Daley Center Courthouse, which serves the Circuit Court of Cook County's First Municipal District. Our then-governing precedent interpreting the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act ("FDCPA") allowed Blatt to file suit against Portalatin in that forum even though at the time of filing she…
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