Gary L. Veach v. Charles R. Sheeks

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 debt collector communication was misleading where it failed to identify the principal balance as separate from treble damages, which had not yet been awarded by the court
• holding that a debt collector may not represent that treble damages are part of the \ 'remaining principal balance' of a claimed debt\ until a court actually grants a judgment and authorizes those damages
• holding that a debt collector may not repre- sent that treble damages are part of the “‘remaining princi- pal balance’ of a claimed debt” until a court actually grants a judgment and authorizes those damages
• applying the Act to the content of “a summons and complaint for Indiana small claims court proceedings”
• letter stated that the consumer owed additional, unspecified attorney’s fees and court costs which was untrue because a court had not ruled on the matter
• notice of claim filed in small claims court misleading because it failed to specify amount of debt

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

49 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Learning Curve Toys, Inc. v. Playwood Toys, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2003-08-18· cited 218×
• Evory v. RJM ACQUISITIONS FUNDING LLC
  Seventh Circuit· 2007-10-23· cited 172×
• Wahl v. Midland Credit Management, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2009-02-23· cited 160×
• Jeffrey Lox v. CDA Limited
  Seventh Circuit· 2012-08-02· cited 122×
• Zemeckis v. Global Credit & Collection Corp.
  Seventh Circuit· 2012-05-11· cited 117×
• Carlin v. Davidson Fink LLP
  Second Circuit· 2017-03-29· cited 106×
• Fields v. Wilber Law Firm
  Seventh Circuit· 2004-09-02· cited 100×
• Caldean M. Chuway v. National Action Financial Services Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2004-03-30· cited 97×
• O'Rourke v. Palisades Acquisition Xvi, LLC
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-03-17· cited 69×
• Unnamed case
  Seventh Circuit· 2004-05-25· cited 66×
• Foster v. D.B.S. Collection Agency
  S.D. Ohio· 2006-12-05· cited 47×
• Williams v. OSI Educational Services, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2007-10-10· cited 46×
• Goins v. JBC & Associates, P.C.
  D. Connecticut· 2005-01-14· cited 38×
• Kenneth Pucillo v. National Credit Systems, Inco
  Seventh Circuit· 2023-04-26· cited 36×
• Deborah L. Olson and Kevin M. Schultz, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Risk Management Alternatives, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2004-06-24· cited 34×
• Barnes v. Advanced Call Center Technologies, LLC
  Seventh Circuit· 2007-07-12· cited 32×
• James A. Shula v. Paul D. Lawent and J.V.D.B. Associates, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2004-02-26· cited 26×
• Joseph Bernal v. NRA Group, LLC
  Seventh Circuit· 2019-07-19· cited 19×
• Patricia Koehn v. Delta Outsource Group, Incorpo
  Seventh Circuit· 2019-09-25· cited 13×
• Conner v. Howe
  S.D. Indiana· 2004-11-08· cited 12×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Curtis Bartlett v. John A. Heibl and John A. Heibl, Attorney at Law
  Seventh Circuit· 1997-12-01· cited 213×
• Lori Pettit v. Retrieval Masters Creditors Bureau, Inc., and Russell Fuchs
  Seventh Circuit· 2000-06-07· cited 180×
• Kevin Miller v. McCalla Raymer, Padrick, Cobb, Nichols, and Clark, L.L.C., and Echevarria, McCalla Raymer, Barrett, and Frappier
  Seventh Circuit· 2000-07-26· cited 147×
• Lenora Johnson v. Revenue Management Corporation, Brendt Wollert v. Client Services, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 1999-03-01· cited 105×
• Jewel Marshall-Mosby v. Corporate Receivables, Inc., and John Does 1-10
  Seventh Circuit· 2000-02-22· cited 92×
• Iqbal Mathur v. Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University
  Seventh Circuit· 2000-03-27· cited 44×
• Americar Leasing, Inc. v. Maple
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1980-06-30· cited 15×