Porter v. Hill

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “filing a civil action to collect an alleged debt is not an act attempting to enforce a ‘right’ or ‘remedy’ proscribed by ORS 646.639(2)(k) merely because all or part of the alleged debt does not exist”
• explaining that, in the civil context, an allegation that an amount was a “finance charge” is a legal conclusion, not a well-pleaded fact that is assumed to be true
• The context of a statute “includes other statutes relating to the same subject matter.”
• The context of a statute \includes other statutes relating to the same subject matter.\
• “The statute . . . prohibits the debt collector from using unfair practices to collect it. Nothing in the statute evidences a legislative concern . . . distinct from the use of abusive methods to pressure debtors to pay their debts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).