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· 4/2/2004

Tonja Treadway v. Gateway Chevrolet Oldsmobile Inc.

Citations

  • 362 F.3d 971
  • 34 A.L.R. Fed. 2d 761
  • 2004 U.S. App. LEXIS 6325
  • 2004 WL 691644

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding car dealership that is able to restructure terms to meet creditor’s concerns and set the annual percentage rate is a creditor for purposes of the ECOA’s notice requirements
  • “Nothing in the definition of ‘denial’ requires that the party doing the denying have the ability to grant as well.”
  • “Congress found that agencies were too often reporting inaccurate information that was adversely affecting the ability of individuals to ob- tain employment”
  • “ ‘Nonsensical interpretations of contracts, as of statutes, are disfavored . . . [n]ot because of a judicial aversion to nonsense as such, but because people are unlikely to make contracts, or legislators statutes, that they believe will have absurd conse- quences.’ ”
  • the ECOA enacted to prohibit discrimination in credit transactions
  • according substantial deference to 12 C.F.R. § 202.2(c)(1)(i)

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Judges: Cudahy, Kanne, Evans

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