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NATIONAL REVENUE CORP. v. VIOLET

No. 86-1422.

807 F.2d 285 (1986)

NATIONAL REVENUE CORPORATION, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Arlene VIOLET, Attorney General of the State of Rhode Island, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 18, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William C. Hillman with whom Strauss, Factor, Hillman & Lopes, P.C. was on brief for plaintiff, appellant.

Basil J. Mezines, John A. Pirko and Stein, Mitchell & Mezines on brief for American Collectors Ass'n, amicus curiae.

Richard P. Woolley, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom Arlene Violet, Atty. Gen., was on brief for defendant, appellee.

Daniel J. Murray, Robert D. Fine and Licht & Semonoff on brief for Rhode Island Bar Ass'n, amicus curiae.

Before TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge, WISDOM and ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judges.

BAILEY ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.

Before addressing the questions in this case, all of which are of a strictly legal nature, we state an overview. Plaintiff, National Revenue Corp., is an Ohio corporation engaged nation-wide in the debt-collection business. In late 1980 it inquired as to the steps necessary to operate in Rhode Island and was informed by the state banking commissioner that because a Rhode Island statute, G.L. c. 11-27, defined debt collecting as...

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