Russell's Trustee v. Mayfield Lumber Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that attempt to collect a debt considered usurious under New York law “constitute[d] an unlawful threat under the FDCPA”
• holding that attempt to collect a debt considered usurious under New York law “constitute[d] an unlawful threat under the FDCPA”
• rejecting conclusory allegations and finding lack of specificity is highlighted when plaintiffs use of same boilerplate description for actions of multiple defendants
• dismissing a GBL § 349 claim premised on allegation that debt collector fraudulently obtained payment from plaintiff's bank account
• finding assertions of jurisdiction based on a theory of agency insufficient where, unlike here, the allegations were “broadly worded and vague,” “not described in any factual detail,” and “boilerplate”
• attempting to collect usurious debt “constitutes an unlawful threat under the FDCPA”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).