Thomas v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding a loan servicer is a debt collector because it is “collecting borrowers’ monthly mortgage payments”
• construing “any” as “a fundamental and irreducible concept” when holding the definition of “debt collector” does not exclude creditors collecting their own debts
• “In the absence of any specific indication to the contrary, words used in a statute will be given their common, ordinary and accepted meanings.”
• \It is also important to note that we are not called upon to decide whether the activities of the defendant in this case did in fact constitute a violation of the Consumer Credit Protection Act.\
• “The word ‘any,’ when used in a statute, should be construed to mean any.”
• application of Act to anyone that collects debts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).