About time! This is from an article on a local minnesota news website... The Minnesota attorney general's office has filed lawsuits against two collection agencies that allegedly violated several state laws. The lawsuits were filed against Minnesota-based Allied Interstate and New Jersey-based J.B.C. and Associates, PC. Lori Swanson of the Attorney General's office says there appears to be a trend of debt collectors becoming even more aggressive. Among other things, she says that has led to the unlawful harassment of some people who don't owe money at all. Allied allegedly has not given proper notice to the people they call that they can dispute the debt in writing. The company also is accused of making repeated collection calls to innocent consumers, who didn't owe money. J.B.C. is accused of unlawfully threatening to sue on debts that have passed the six-year statute of limitations and threatening penalties higher than the law allows. Officials from neither company immediately returned phone calls. (Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
i'm sorry kk - did i hit a sore spot? boyfriend get sued again? for accurate quoting (because we apparently have a law conscious debt collector) that excerpt was taken from www.kare11.com and the State of Minnesota Attorney Generals office. Actually that is what is posted on the AG website and the associated press took that from there for their article.
how nice of you to change your post! i wish i would have quoted it...for those that didn't read her reply she wrote (not verbatem) "i wonder what the fine is for copyright violation".
I hope the AP did more than quote what was on the AG's website. If they didn't, they may be the ones with copyright problems if they try to say their article is copyright. If it came from a government website, there would be no copyright, therefore there can be no copyright infringement.
