Hart v. Clayton-Parker and Associates, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that to determine whether claim is compulsory, “courts should consider whether the facts necessary to prove the claim and counterclaim substantially overlap”
• enumerating a number of cases and declaring that “every published decision directly addressing the issue ... has found that FDCPA lawsuits and lawsuits arising from the underlying contractual debt are not compulsory counterclaims”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).