United States Seventh Circuit

Court costs and attorney's fees are not a component of a "debt" under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and a mailed notice misrepresented the actual debt that a creditor claimed it was owed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/13/2003
• Published 01/13/2003

Judges

• WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge., Before COFFEY, EVANS, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Clifford W. Shepard (argued), Indianapolis, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• G. Ronald Heath, Steven J. Moss (argued), Hoover Hull Baker & Heath, Indianapolis, IN, for Defendant-Appellee.