Allied Interstate Must Fight 5-Year-Old Credit Collections Claim

Allied Interstate LLC can’t dodge a nearly five-year-old claim that the collections agency sent misleading correspondence to a debtor in violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the U.S. District Court for New Jersey said.

Judge Susan D. Wigenton’s unpublished Tuesday opinion denied Allied’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit as untimely, concluding the law’s one-year statute of limitations was paused for the roughly three-and-a-half years that a related action was pending.

Plaintiff Rosa M. Williams-Hopkins’ alleges that Allied sent her a collection letter that misled her to believe she had a legal obligation to pay an expired debt. More ...