creditor-definition

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-1165 Abraham Winter v. Laboratory Corporation of America, et al. New York 2025-05-14 Denied commercial-enterprise creditor-definition debt-collection fdcpa ftc-authority principal-purpose-test Is an entity a creditor under FDCPA if they are not owed a debt, and should the test for 'name other than his own' follow the FTC's opinion or the sta…
20-1634 Nicole Johnson-Gellineau v. Stiene & Associates, P.C., et al. Second Circuit 2021-05-24 Denied 15-usc-1692a(4) 15-usc-1692c(b) creditor creditor-definition debt-collection debt-collector fair-debt-collection-practices-act fiduciary fiduciary-duty litigation-communication statutory-interpretation Whether a fiduciary that obtains a defaulted debt, and is owed the debt, may qualify as a person facilitating collection 'for another' within the excl…
20-339 Jason Winer v. Coralys Negron, et al. Second Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure consumer-protection creditor-definition creditor-status de-facto-dealer district-court-jurisdiction state-law-claims Supplemental-jurisdiction unfair-trade-practices No question identified