People v. Djambazov

How courts have described this case

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• noting that this allegation was “[u]nlike most lawsuits under the [FDCPA]”
• “to be actionable, a misleading statement must have the ability to influence a consumer’s decision.”
• the Act is intended to “keep consumers from being intimidated or tricked by debt collectors.”
• “The [FDCPA] regulates communications directed at the consumer; . . . it does not extend to communications that are allegedly meant to mislead the judge in a state court action.”
• “A consumer is any natural person obligated or allegedly obligated to pay any debt.”
• “with the costs of litigation and the difficulties estab‐ lishing the debt, when a debt collector cannot get payment through phone calls and letters and it has to go to court, the debt collector will often rely on default judgments as the last resort”

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