Poirier v. Alco Collections, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that collections agency violated Section 1692e(5) when it engaged in the unauthorized practice of law by instituting a lawsuit against a debtor since the debt had not been properly assigned
• denying motion to dismiss tenant’s FDCPA claim against attorneys
• conflating “action” with “threat” for purposes of § 1692e(5)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).