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BARQUIS v. MERCHANTS COLLECTION ASSN.

Docket No. S.F. 22831.

7 Cal.3d 94 (1972)

496 P.2d 817

101 Cal. Rptr. 745

JESSIE BARQUIS et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. MERCHANTS COLLECTION ASSOCIATION OF OAKLAND, INC., et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

May 10, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Eugene M. Swann, Alan Verson and Peter N. Hagberg for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Andrea Sheridan Ordin, Deputy Attorney General, Terry J. Hatter, Jr., Paul L. McKaskle, Abby Soven, Lucy K. McCabe, Don B. Kates, Jr., Chern & Sharpe, Gertrude D. Chern and Carolyn M. Farren as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Irwin J. Eskanos, in pro per., Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, Carlisle C. Crosby, Richard J. Heafey, P. Gerhardt Zacher, Peter W. Davis, Gross, Gross, Rose & Schwartz and Barry R. Gross for Defendants and Respondents.

OPINION

TOBRINER, J.

This action was commenced in the Superior Court of Alameda County in 1968 by six individual plaintiffs on behalf of themselves and other similarly situated persons against defendant Merchants Collection Association of Oakland, Inc. (Merchants),1 a licensed collection agency, to challenge the agency's alleged practice of knowingly and wilfully filing actions in improper counties, pursuant...

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