Kaltenbach v. Richards

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that a party who falls under the general definition of “debt collector” is a debt collector for the purposes of the FDCPA as a whole, regardless of whether the party is enforcing a security interest
• holding FDCPA applies to initiation of executory process foreclosure
• “[L]itigating lawyers are not exempt from the FDCPA if they otherwise qualify as debt collectors.”
• construing a complaint liberally in part because the litigant proceeded pro se
• “Heintz stands for the proposition that litigating lawyers are not exempt from the FDCPA if they otherwise qualify as debt collectors.”
• “[T]he entire FDCPA can apply to a party whose principal business is enforcing security interests but who nevertheless fits § 1629a(6)’s general definition of a debt collector.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Burnett v. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.
  Tenth Circuit· 2013-02-01· cited 378×
• Reliable Consultants, Inc. v. Earle
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-02-12· cited 208×
• Cohen v. Rosicki, Rosicki & Assocs., P.C.
  Second Circuit· 2018-07-23· cited 202×
• In re the United States
  Fifth Circuit· 2013-07-30· cited 155×
• Lawrence Glazer v. Chase Home Finance, LLC
  Sixth Circuit· 2013-01-14· cited 142×
• Vien-Phuong Thi Ho v. ReconTrust Co.
  Ninth Circuit· 2016-10-19· cited 106×
• Aurora Loan Services, LLC v. Kmiecik
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2013-06-07· cited 76×
• Tina Alexander v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
  Fifth Circuit· 2017-08-15· cited 48×
• Heaven v. Gonzales
  Fifth Circuit· 2006-12-14· cited 41×
• Brown v. Card Service Center
  Third Circuit· 2006-09-29· cited 39×
• Reese v. JPMorgan Chase & Co.
  S.D. Florida· 2009-10-15· cited 30×
• Obduskey v. Wells Fargo
  Tenth Circuit· 2018-01-19· cited 29×
• McDermott v. Marcus, Errico, Emmer & Brooks, P.C.
  D. Massachusetts· 2012-11-20· cited 27×
• Derisme v. Hunt Leibert Jacobson P.C.
  D. Connecticut· 2012-07-23· cited 20×
• Ashraf Mahmoud v. De Moss Owners Assn, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 2017-07-28· cited 19×
• Gray v. Four Oak Court Ass'n, Inc.
  D. Minnesota· 2008-09-22· cited 17×
• Fouche' v. Shapiro & Massey L.L.P.
  S.D. Mississippi· 2008-08-05· cited 15×
• Maynard v. Cannon
  D. Utah· 2008-06-16· cited 12×
• Rhodes v. Olson Associates, P.C.
  D. Colorado· 2015-03-13· cited 12×
• Castrillo v. American Home Mortgage Servicing, Inc.
  E.D. Louisiana· 2009-11-16· cited 11×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Conley v. Gibson
  Supreme Court· 1957-11-18· cited 30,380×
• Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 20,645×
• Duncan v. Walker
  Supreme Court· 2001-06-18· cited 2,368×
• Collins v. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-08-31· cited 1,731×
• TRW Inc. v. Andrews
  Supreme Court· 2001-11-13· cited 1,407×
• Heintz v. Jenkins
  Supreme Court· 1995-04-18· cited 924×
• Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Sales, Inc. v. Avondale Shipyards, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1982-06-07· cited 836×
• Duane Montgomery v. Huntington Bank and Silver Shadow Recovery, Inc.
  Sixth Circuit· 2003-10-09· cited 183×
• Thomas E. Walton Le'ellen Walton v. Rose Mobile Homes Llc, Southern Energy Homes, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-07-30· cited 95×
• Hulse v. Ocwen Federal Bank, FSB
  D. Oregon· 2002-02-27· cited 64×
• Shapiro & Meinhold v. Zartman
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1992-01-13· cited 64×
• Rosado v. Taylor
  N.D. Indiana· 2004-06-22· cited 45×
• Jordan v. Kent Recovery Services, Inc.
  D. Delaware· 1990-02-28· cited 36×
• Heinemann v. Jim Walter Homes, Inc.
  N.D. West Virginia· 1998-11-13· cited 15×