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GOLDMAN v. COHEN

Docket No. 05-2645-CV.

445 F.3d 152 (2006)

Leslie GOLDMAN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jeffrey F. COHEN, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: April 12, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew K. Flanagan, L'Abbate, Balkan, Colavita & Contini, L.L.P., Garden City, NY, for Defendant-Appellant.

Robert K. Sokolski, Sokolski & Zekaria, P.C., New York City, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before: CABRANES and SACK, Circuit Judges, and AMON, District Judge.

JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge.

We consider here, as a matter of first impression in our Circuit, whether a consumer debt collector's initiation of a lawsuit in state court seeking recovery of unpaid rent is an "initial communication" within the meaning of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1692 et seq., (the "FDCPA"), thereby requiring a debt collector to provide "validation notices" in accordance with 15 U.S.C. § 1692g(a)...

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