Lori Pettit v. Retrieval Masters Creditors Bureau, Inc., and Russell Fuchs

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a plaintiff’s self-serving deposition testimony was not enough for her FDCPA claim to survive summary judgment, but that a consumer survey may have been sufficient
• noting that individuals who meet the statutory definition of “debt collector” can be held personally liable under the FDCPA
• noting that debtor could not prevail on FDCPA claim “because at the summary judgment stage of a case she must do more than merely speculate about how a naive debtor would interpret the letter”
• noting that debtor could not prevail on FDCPA claim “because at the summary judgment stage of a case she must do more than merely speculate about how a naive debtor would interpret the letter”
• noting that the unsophisticated consumer has at least a “rudimentary knowledge about the financial world, is wise enough to read collection notices with added care, possesses ‘reasonable intelligence,’ and is capable of making basic logical deductions and inferences”
• noting that the unsophisticated consumer has at least a “rudimentary knowledge about the financial world, is wise enough to read collection notices with added care, possesses ‘reasonable intelligence,’ and is capable of making basic logical deductions and inferences”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).