No. 20-376

DNF Associates, LLC v. Jillian McAdory

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-09-24
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived Experienced Counsel
Tags: civil-procedure consumer-protection debt-buyer debt-collection debt-collector fair-debt-collection-practices-act henson-v-santander legal-standing passive-debt-buyer statutory-interpretation
Key Terms:
Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2020-10-16
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a passive debt buyer is a debt collector under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Whether a passive debt buyer—an entity that purchases defaulted debts for its own account, refers the debts to third parties that perform collection, and does not itself communicate with the debtors—is a debt collector for purposes of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. (I)

Docket Entries

2020-10-19
Petition DENIED.
2020-09-30
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/16/2020.
2020-09-24
Waiver of right of respondent Jillian McAdory to respond filed.
2020-09-24
Blanket Consent filed by Petitioner, DNF Associates, LLC
2020-09-21
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 26, 2020)

Attorneys

DNF Associates, LLC
Kannon K. ShanmugamPaul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Petitioner
Kannon K. ShanmugamPaul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Petitioner
Jillian McAdory
Adam Ross PulverPublic Citizen Litigation Group, Respondent
Adam Ross PulverPublic Citizen Litigation Group, Respondent