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U.S. v. NATIONAL FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.

No. 95-2796.

98 F.3d 131 (1996)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. NATIONAL FINANCIAL SERVICES, INCORPORATED, a corporation; Robert J. Smith, individually and as an officer of said corporation; N. Frank Lanocha, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 11, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Matthew Scott Sturtz, Joseph William Hovermill, Miles & Stockridge, P.C., Baltimore, MD, for Defendants-Appellants. Jacqueline H. Eagle, Office of Consumer Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Plaintiff-Appellee. ON BRIEF: Christopher W. Keller, Thomas E. Kane, Division of Credit Practices, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D.C., for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before RUSSELL and ERVIN, Circuit Judges, and NORTON, United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, sitting by designation.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge ERVIN wrote the opinion, in which Judge RUSSELL and Judge NORTON joined.

OPINION

ERVIN, Circuit Judge:

National Financial Services, Inc. (NFS), Robert J. Smith, and N. Frank Lanocha are debt collectors who, primarily on behalf of companies selling magazine subscriptions, send out computer-generated dunning letters en masse. They appeal the imposition of civil penalties for violations of the Fair Debt Collection...

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