MANUEL v. MERCHANTS AND PROFESSIONAL BUREAU, INC.

No. 19-50814.

956 F.3d 822 (2020)

Silvia MANUEL, Plaintiff-Appellee v. MERCHANTS AND PROFESSIONAL BUREAU, INCORPORATED, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED April 29, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brent Allen Devere, Esq. , Karen Elisabeth Oprea , Law Office of Oprea & Weber, Austin, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

David C. Sander, Esq. , Scanlan, Buckle & Young, P.C., Austin, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.

James Allen Moseley, Esq. , Dylan Owen Drummond, Esq. , Gray Reed & McGraw, L.L.P., Dallas, TX, for Amicus Curiae.

Before: OWEN, Chief Judge, and HIGGINBOTHAM and WILLETT, Circuit Judges.


This Fair Debt Collection Practices Act ("FDCPA") appeal concerns the collection of debt too old to be legally enforced under the applicable statute of limitations. In 2016, we held in Daugherty v. Convergent Outsourcing, Inc., that "a collection letter seeking payment on a time-barred debt (without...

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