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· 1/16/1996

Donna M. Russell v. Equifax A.R.S., and Cbi Collections

Citations

  • 74 F.3d 30
  • 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 1042

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • requiring that validation notice be understood by the “least sophisticated consumer”
  • “[A] collection notice is deceptive when it can be reasonably read to have two or more different meanings, one of which is inaccurate.”
  • ‘[A] collection notice is deceptive when it can be reasonably read to have two or more different meanings, one of which is inaccurate.’”
  • “Because the initial collection notice in the instant case was reasonably susceptible to an inaccurate reading, it was also deceptive within the meaning of the Act.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Cardamone, Miner, Calabresi

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