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GREENWOOD v. COMPUCREDIT CORP.

No. 09-15906.

615 F.3d 1204 (2010)

Wanda GREENWOOD; Ladelle Hatfield; Deborah McCleese, on behalf of themselves and other similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. COMPUCREDIT CORPORATION and Columbus Bank and Trust, jointly and individually, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 17, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan L. Germaise, McGuire Woods LLP, Los Angeles, CA, David L. Hartsell, McGuire Woods LLP, Chicago, IL, James R. McGuire, Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, CA, Tim A. O'Brien, Morrison & Foerster LLP, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellants.

Adrian Barnes, Gilbert & Sackman, Los Angeles, CA, W. Lloyd Copeland, Taylor-Martino-Zarzaur, PC, Mobile, AL, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, A. WALLACE TASHIMA, and SIDNEY R. THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

THOMAS, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents the question, inter alia, as to whether the word "sue," as used in the Credit Repair Organization Act ("CROA"), means "arbitrate." Or, perhaps the question is, as Alice put it: "whether you can make words mean so many different things?"1 We conclude that Congress meant what it said in using the term "sue," and that it did not mean "arbitrate." We affirm the order of the...

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