The Scope of the Least Sophisticated Consumer Standard: New York District Court Grants Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss in FDCPA Case
By EsqSocial Corporation 08/06/21
In Teitelbaum v. I.C. Sys., a New York district court granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) case. In its holding, the court emphasized that the least sophisticated consumer standard may not be invoked to support the proposition that a collection letter is ambiguous in situations where the interpretation, in context of a reading of the entire letter, is clearly illogical or “tortured and ‘idiosyncratic.'”...
By: Troutman Pepper