A federal Judge in New Jersey has determined that a debt collector who made 18 telephone calls to a consumer over a two-week period (17 of which were unanswered and one where the recipient hung up) “could not reasonably be found to violate the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA).” The case is Chisholm v. AFNI, Inc., (Case No. 15-3625, U.S, District Court, New Jersey, Nov. 22, 2016) A copy of the opinion from the Honorable Jerome B. Simandle, U.S. District Court Judge, District of New Jersey, can be found here.
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