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· 2/19/1980

Westmoreland Hospital Ass'n v. Blue Cross of Western Pennsylvania

Citations

  • 444 U.S. 1077
  • 100 S. Ct. 1025

How courts have described this case

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  • explaining potential chilling effect of allowing a debt collection counterclaim in a FDCPA action
  • “The [FDCPA] claim and the [breach of contract] counterclaim are, of course, offshoots of the same basic transaction, but they do not represent the same basic controversy between the parties,”

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