ftc-authority

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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…
19-914 Credit Bureau Center, LLC, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission Seventh Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Relisted (5) administrative-law consumer-protection consumer-redress enforcement-scheme federal-trade-commission ftc ftc-authority injunctive-relief permanent-injunction section-13(b) section-19 statutory-interpretation Whether Section 13(b)'s second proviso providing that the FTC 'may seek' a permanent injunction is an independent grant of authority to 'file suit' se…