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Originally posted by Spanky
This is personal. I am having a dispute with my credit card company over the interest they have charged. I won't pay them until they readjust the interest rate. They sent the bill to a collections agency who kept calling me and harassing me so I sent them a notice saying that couldn't call me any more. So they sued. But I believe the suit is a bluff. They are in San Diego, and they had to sue me up here, and the filing was a simple form to fill out.
I think they believe that once they filed that I would buckle.
But I am going to call their bluff, and answer the petition and once they get my response they will be forced to decide whether to get involved in litigation six hundred miles from their firm. And as they are a collection agency I don't think they even have litigators.
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i just had this sort for a client/friend. he has a side business that sued in small claims. the guy he sued appears with a lawyer and removes to a court one step above small claims. what do i know? i agree to help, in part so one of my young guys can get some experience in running a discovery. i figure they were bluffing thinking my guy would blink once he had to hire a lawyer. so i did my patented phone call "umm, i'm a fed litigator, but this is cool. i will put two of my new lawyers on it and let them make mistakes, burn paper. i apologize that you'll get buried in discovery, but they don't know from restraint, and i can't review because i'm doing it for free." the guy says "there is no discovery in this level." egg on face. but they did settle eventually.
