Caldean M. Chuway v. National Action Financial Services Inc.

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• observing that the debt collector had not been hired to collect the “current” balance of Plaintiff’s credit card
• noting that a balance “might not yet be due, let alone overdue”
• excusing the plaintiff’s burden to produce extrinsic evidence, based on the court’s own determination that the letter at issue was confusing
• noting the similarity of the two standards but finding that the “unsophisticated debtor” standard is more precise
• finding misleading a letter that identified the credit card company as a creditor, stating the balance and providing a phone number to “[t]o obtain [the] most current balance information”
• “the entire bench was confused about the meaning of the letter until the defendant's lawyer explained it to us at the oral argument''

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).