Date: 07-22-2024

Case Style:

Phillip Woods v. National Credit Adjusters, LLC

Case Number: 4:22-CR-227

Judge: Mark T. Steele

Court: United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma (Tulsa County)

Plaintiff's Attorney:

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Defendant's Attorney: No appearance

Description:

Tulsa, Oklahoma consumer credit lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act violation theory.

(a) Abusive practices

There is abundant evidence of the use of abusive, deceptive, and unfair debt collection practices by many debt collectors. Abusive debt collection practices contribute to the number of personal bankruptcies, to marital instability, to the loss of jobs, and to invasions of individual privacy.
(b) Inadequacy of laws

Existing laws and procedures for redressing these injuries are inadequate to protect consumers.
(c) Available non-abusive collection methods

Means other than misrepresentation or other abusive debt collection practices are available for the effective collection of debts.
(d) Interstate commerce

Abusive debt collection practices are carried on to a substantial extent in interstate commerce and through means and instrumentalities of such commerce. Even where abusive debt collection practices are purely intrastate in character, they nevertheless directly affect interstate commerce.
(e) Purposes

It is the purpose of this subchapter to eliminate abusive debt collection practices by debt collectors, to insure that those debt collectors who refrain from using abusive debt collection practices are not competitively disadvantaged, and to promote consistent State action to protect consumers against debt collection abuses.

The consumer may also recover attorney's fees from the offending debt collector, which means consumers may enforce their rights under the FDCPA at minimal legal cost.

Outcome: Settled for an undisclosed sum and dismissed with prejudice.

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