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· 4/23/1997

Garrett v. Derbes

Citations

  • 110 F.3d 317
  • 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 8549
  • 1997 WL 163527

How courts have described this case

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

  • finding a rational factfinder could conclude that a lawyer whose collection work encompassed over 600 demand letters, but represented only 0.5 percent of his practice during the relevant nine-month period, regularly engaged in debt collection
  • attorney regularly collected consumer debts when he had sent 639 demand letters during a nine- month period
  • “[I]f the volume of a person’s debt collection activity is great enough, it is irrelevant that these services only amount to a small fraction of his total business activity; the person still renders them ‘regularly.’”

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Judges: Garza, Parker, Dennis

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