Clark v. Capital Credit & Collection Services, Inc.

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Clark v. Capital Credit & Collection Services, Inc.

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Clark v. Capital Credit & Collection Services, Inc.
--- F.3d ----, 2006 WL 2441705
C.A.9 (Or.),2006.
August 24, 2006

As our colleagues in other circuits have concluded, this broad language seems to make the FDCPA a strict liability statute. See Taylor v. Perrin, Landry, deLaunay & Durand, 103 F.3d 1232, 1238-39 (5th Cir.1997); Russell v. Equifax A.R.S., 74 F.3d 30, 33 (2d Cir.1996); see also Irwin v. Mascott, 112 F.Supp.2d 937 (N.D.Cal.2000); Pittman v. J.J. Mac Intyre Co. of Nevada, Inc., 969 F.Supp. 609(D.Nev.1997); Kuhn v. Account Control Technology, Inc., 865 F.Supp. 1443, (D.Nev.1994).
Latching onto that conclusion, the Seventh Circuit has held that Ҥ 1692e applies even when a false representation was unintentional.â€
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