James Manufacturing Co. v. Rehkopf Saddlery Co.

How courts have described this case

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• collecting cases on both sides of the split that has emerged on this issue and concluding that the remedial purposes of the FDCPA should lead courts to construe the statute liberally in favor of debtors
• “‘In connection with’ is synonymous with the phrases ‘related to,’ ‘associated with,’ and ‘with respect to.’ It is expansive. It covers ‘communications that convey, directly or indirectly, any information relating to a debt.’”
• “The fact that a letter may have been a required informational notice under a separate statute does not prevent it from being an initial communication ‘in connection with the collection of [a] debt’ under the FDCPA.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).