DE DIOS v. INTERNATIONAL REALTY & INVESTMENTS

No. 08-56288.

641 F.3d 1071 (2011)

Maribel Juan DE DIOS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. INTERNATIONAL REALTY & INVESTMENTS, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed April 11, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Yevgeniya Lisitsa , Lisitsa Law Corporation, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Peter L. Weinberger , Peter L. Weinberger & Associates, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendant-appellee.

Before: M. MARGARET McKEOWN, WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, and RICHARD R. CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:

Congress passed the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (the "Act") to "eliminate abusive debt collection practices by debt collectors." 15 U.S.C. § 1692(e). The Act broadly applies to any business that uses an instrumentality of interstate commerce to collect a debt on its own or another's behalf. Id. § 1692a(6). This appeal centers around one of several narrow...

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