RHONE v. MEDICAL BUSINESS BUREAU, LLC

No. 17-3408.

915 F.3d 438 (2019)

Diane RHONE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. MEDICAL BUSINESS BUREAU, LLC, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 7, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Celetha Chatman , Attorney, COMMUNITY LAWYERS GROUP, LTD., Daniel Richard Brown , Attorney, LAW OFFICE OF DANIEL BROWN, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Nicole Marie Strickler , Attorney, MESSER STRICKLER, LTD., Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Brian Melendez , Attorney, BARNES & THORNBURG LLP, Minneapolis, MN, for Amicus Curiae.

Before Wood, Chief Judge, and Easterbrook and Rovner, Circuit Judges.


This case is about character—the character of a debt. A debt collector must not make any "false representation" about "the character, amount, or legal status of any debt". 15 U.S.C. § 1692e(2)(A). A district court concluded that a debt collector misrepresented a debt's "character" by reporting to a credit...

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