555 U.S. 488 (2009) Cited 2,993 times 12 Legal Analyses
Holding that supplementation of the district court record to receive affidavits from the organization's members was not permitted "in the circumstances here: after the trial is over, judgment has been entered, and a notice of appeal has been filed"
Finding that the "no intent" inquiry is "inherently subjective and `primarily becomes a credibility question' as to whether the defendant intended to violate the FDCPA"
Holding that consent must come from the current subscriber, and that a prior customer's authority to consent lapses when a cell phone number is reassigned
567 F. Supp. 2d 1035 (N.D. Ill. 2008) Cited 27 times
Holding messages constituted communications even without referencing a debt, when they "conveyed pertinent information to Plaintiff, including the fact that there was a matter that he should attend to and instructions on how to do so"
796 F. Supp. 2d 1301 (D. Colo. 2011) Cited 21 times
Holding that voicemail message in which "Defendant's employee neither identified himself as a debt collector nor articulated that the purpose of the voicemail message was to collect a debt" constituted a communication under the FDCPA
15 U.S.C. § 1692d Cited 1,895 times 22 Legal Analyses
Limiting debt collectors’ ability to use threats of violence, publicize lists of consumers allegedly refusing to pay debts, cause a telephone to ring repeatedly or continuously, or engage someone in telephone conversation repeatedly or continuously