United States Second Circuit

In a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act action claiming that a creditor filed an inflated proof of claim in plaintiffs' bankruptcy, the dismissal of the complaint is affirmed where a proof of claim filed in bankruptcy court cannot form the basis for a claim under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/05/2010
• Published 10/05/2010

Judges

• Dennis Jacobs

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Joshua N. Bleichman, Paul W. Mahler