Collection Agency Owes Fees After FDCPA Default 
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Published: August 31, 2012
Tags: Consumer Protection, Judge F. Bradford Stillman, Judge Rebecca Beach Smith, U.S. District Court - Eastern District
A debtor wins $9,385.50 in damages and attorney’s fees in a default judgment against a Georgia debt collection agency in her suit alleging the agency violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act when it threatened legal action it could not take and called her supervisor to suggest debtor was about to be arrested; a Newport ...
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