Term
Issue
Whether a company that regularly attempts to collect debts it purchased after the debts had fallen into default is a “debt collector” subject to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
Opinion
The Supreme Court held that a debt collector who purchases a debt for its own account is not a debt collector covered by the FDCPA. Click here for the Court's opinion.
ABI Media Teleconference
ABI editor-at-large Bill Rochelle talks with consumer law scholar Prof. Jeff Sovern of St. John's University School of Law and consumer bankruptcy attorney John R. Bollinger of the Boleman Law Firm about the Supreme Court's opinion in Henson v. Santander Consumer (No. 16-349). Click here to listen.
Oral Arguments Date
April 18, 2017.
Oral Arguments Date
Certiorari Granted Date
Petitions
Amicus Briefs