Legal Opinion
Worldwide Asset Purchasing, L.L.C. v. Easterling
Ohio Court of Appeals
Decided November 24, 2009No. Nos. 09AP-347, 09AP-566PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Tyack, Judge.
{¶ 1} Worldwide Asset Purchasing, L.L.C., is a company that buys third-party debt from others. In this case, Worldwide purchased an account on a credit card from Direct Merchants Credit Card Bank. The credit card may have been opened by Terri Easterling’s ex-husband in or around February 2002. After the obligor defaulted on the payment on the credit card, issues related to the debt were submitted for arbitration, pursuant to a purported binding-arbitration clause in the credit-card agreement. The National Arbitration Forum ultimately issued a decision ordering Easterling to pay…
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