United States Ninth Circuit

In a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act action, the district court's award of costs to defendants following judgment in their favor is vacated where a prevailing defendant cannot be awarded costs under the FDCPA unless the plaintiff brought the action in bad faith and for the purpose of harassment.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/05/2010
• Decided 05/03/2010
• Published 05/03/2010

Judges

• Before: HARRY PREGERSON and ROBERT R. BEEZER, Circuit Judges, and JAMES L. GRAHAM, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ian Chowdhury, Law Office of Ian Chowdhury, Winnetka, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark E. Ellis and June D. Coleman, Ellis, Coleman, Poirier, LaVoie & Steinheimer, LLP, Sacramento, CA, for the defendants-appellees.