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OBDUSKEY v. McCARTHY & HOLTHUS LLP, Supreme Court 2019

Held: A business engaged in no more than nonjudicial foreclosure proceedings is not a “debt collector” under the FDCPA, except for the limited purpose of § 1692f(6). Pp. 6-14. (a) The FDCPA regulates “`debt collector[s].'” § 1692a(6). Relevant here, the definition of debt collector has two parts. The Act first sets out the primary definition of the term “debt collector”: a “`debt collector,'” it says, is “any person . . . in any business the principal purpose of which is the collection of any debts, or who

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