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· 9/15/1982

William Clark v. The Rent-It Corporation

Citations

  • 685 F.2d 245

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating that the Truth In Lending Act (“TILA”) “is remedial in nature, and the substance rather than the form of credit transactions should be examined in cases arising under it” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
  • considering “the practices of the trade, the course of dealing of the parties, and the intention of the parties in addition to specific contractual obligations”
  • “Congress was aware that some creditors would attempt to characterize their 10 transactions so as to fall one step outside whatever boundary Congress attempted to establish.”

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Judges: Heaney, Henley, McMILLIAN

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