CMF Virginia Land, L.P. v. Brinson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an ECOA violation is not properly asserted as an 11 affirmative defense to liability and should instead take the form of a compulsory counterclaim
• stating “[invalidation of the debt itself is a remedy too drastic for the Court to implement simply by reading between the lines of the ECOA”
• stating “[i]nvalidation of the debt itself is a remedy too drastic for the Court to implement simply by reading between the lines of the ECOA”
• “A counterclaim certainly can be premised upon a violation of the ECOA, but such a violation cannot be alleged to avoid basic liability on the underlying debt.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).