Duane Montgomery v. Huntington Bank and Silver Shadow Recovery, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a “pro se complaint must be held to less stringent standards than formal pleadings drafted by lawyers”
• concluding that a bank which originated a car loan was not “a ‘debt collector’ subject to liability under the FDCPA”
• noting that the FTC’s interpretations of the FDCPA can help “shed light on the statute’s meaning”
• stating that a “pro se complaint must be held to less stringent standards than formal pleadings drafted by lawyers”
• holding whether the defendants fall under the FDCPA definition of a “debt collector” is a “threshold matter”
• stating that the statutory definition of debt collector “does not include the consumer’s creditors” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).