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: Credit Slips

Creditor Calls Debtor Excrement

By John Pottow

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Under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1692d(2), creditors are prohibited from using "obscene or profane" language in collecting debts.

Would this count?

Or is truth an absolute defense?

(Thanks to students in my bankruptcy class for bringing this article to my attention.)

Full post as published by Credit Slips on February 08, 2008 (boomark / email).

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