United States Second Circuit

In an action under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act claiming that defendants illegally attempted to collect a debt because they were not licensed to do so in New York, the Court of Appeals certifies the following questions to the New York Court of Appeals: 1) whether defendant was a "debt collection agency" under the pre-amendment version of New York City Administrative Code section 20-489(a); and 2) if so, whether defendant violated New York Gen. Bus. Law section 349.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/19/2009
• Decided 08/27/2009
• Published 08/27/2009

Judges

• STRAUB, Circuit Judge:, Before STRAUB, HALL, and LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Brian L. Bromberg, Bromberg Law Office, P.C., New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Carolyn E. Coffey, MFY Legal Services, Inc. (Andrew Goldberg, Anamaria Segura, on the brief; Jeanette Zelhof, of counsel), New York, NY, for MFY Legal Services, Inc. as amicus curiae in support of Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas A. Leghorn, Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker LLP (Jay A. Wechsler, on the brief), White Plains, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.