United States Ninth Circuit

In an action under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) alleging an improper debt collection lawsuit, judgment on the pleadings for defendants is affirmed where a cause of action for tortious conversion does not constitute a debt within the meaning of the FDCPA.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/09/2009
• Published 09/09/2009

Judges

• PAEZ, Circuit Judge:, Before: KIM McLANE WARDLAW, RICHARD A. PAEZ and N. RANDY SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James Sturdevant, Bellingham, WA, for the appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Terence John Cullen and Susan Kathleen McIntosh, Forsberg & Umlauf, P.S., Seattle, WA, for the appellees.