Seeger v. Afni, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• “Neither a law expressly permitting a collection fee . . . nor an agreement between the [parties] exists here.” 12 (emphasis added)
• “[The defendant] never consulted an attorney in Wisconsin on state law issues, nor did it ask a Wisconsin governmental agency whether it was entitled to charge a collection fee as the owner of the debt.”
• “We have no need to take sides on the circuit split in this case, because, even assuming that AFNI’s mistake was a mistake of law, it cannot prevail for other reasons.”
• “[The defendant] never consulted an attorney in Wis- consin on state law issues, nor did it ask a Wisconsin governmental agency whether it was entitled to charge a collection fee as the owner of the debt.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).