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· 7/6/1998

Karen L. Keele, on Behalf of Herself and All Others Similarly Situated v. Norman Paul Wexler, Mitchell Wexler and Wexler and Wexler

Citations

  • 149 F.3d 589
  • 40 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 1135
  • 1998 U.S. App. LEXIS 15029
  • 1998 WL 372061

How courts have described this case

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  • noting that the FDCPA does not require proof of actual damages as a precursor to the recovery of statutory damages
  • holding there is no fraud exception to the FDCPA, thus it is irrelevant whether members of the class may have intended that their checks would be dishonored
  • noting that the language of the FDCPA “fo‐ cuses primarily, if not exclusively on the conduct of debt col‐ lectors, not debtors”
  • noting that the language of the FDCPA “fo‐ cuses primarily, if not exclusively on the conduct of debt col‐ lectors, not debtors”
  • noting that some “factual variations among class members’ grievances do not defeat a class action”
  • finding that named plaintiffs claim was typical because class members were all suing under FDCPA “alleging violations of the same statutory sections under the same legal theory”

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Judges: Cummings, Coffey, Manion

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