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By Henry E. Hildebrand, III, Chapter 13 Trustee for the Middle District of Tennessee
Crawford v. LVNV Funding, LLC, 2014 WL 3361266 (11th Cir. July 10, 2014) (Goldberg). The filing of a proof of claim in a Chapter 13 case to collect a debt that is stale under the state’s statute of limitations violates the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and subjects the claimant to sanctions.
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Stanley Crawford owed approximately $2,000 to Heilig-Meyers Furniture Company from furniture purchases and Heilig-Meyers had charged off the debt in 1999. Several . . .
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