· 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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