COMMONWEALTH v. ALLIED BOND & COLLECTION AGENCY


394 Mass. 608 (1985)

476 N.E.2d 955

COMMONWEALTH vs. ALLIED BOND AND COLLECTION AGENCY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 18, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven E. Kramer, Assistant Attorney General (Richard C. Allen, Assistant Attorney General, with him) for the Commonwealth.

Robert S. Brintz (Linda J. Kline & Timothy P. Wickstrom with him) for the defendant.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

We are presented with the question whether the Commonwealth, consistent with the commerce clause of the Constitution of the United States (art. I, § 8, cl. 3), may require an out-of-State consumer debt collection agency, conducting its business solely by interstate mail and telephone, to obtain a license under G.L.c. 93, § 24, and to maintain an office within the Commonwealth pursuant to a regulation of the Commissioner of Banks. 209 Code Mass...

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