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HESS v. COHEN & SLAMOWITZ LLP

Docket No. 10-424-cv.

637 F.3d 117 (2011)

Jonathan HESS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COHEN & SLAMOWITZ LLP, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: February 23, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian L. Bromberg , Bromberg Law Office, P.C., New York, N.Y. ( Peter T. Lane , Bromberg Law Office, P.C., New York, N.Y., Anthony J. Pietrafesa , Law Office of Anthony J. Pietrafesa, Altamont, N.Y., on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Daniel R. Ryan , Smith, Sovik, Kendrick & Sugnet, P.C., Syracuse, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: POOLER, KATZMANN, and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.

KATZMANN, Circuit Judge:

The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act ("FDCPA") delimits the proper venues in which a debt collector may bring a legal action to collect on a consumer debt. In pertinent part, the FDCPA's venue provisions require that such actions be brought "only in the judicial district or similar legal entity . . . in which [the] consumer resides at the commencement of the action." 15 U.S.C. § 1692i(a)(2)(B). Here, Defendant-Appellee Cohen & Slamowitz...

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