U.S. Supreme Court,
Civil Litigation
Oct. 8, 2019
Supreme Court to examine discovery rule in FDCPA cases
Sometimes small cases hit the big stage. Rotkiske v. Klemm began with a debt collection agency filing a complaint in Philadelphia Municipal Court in 2008 to collect the $1,500 that the debtor owed his credit card company. Now, over a decade later, the Supreme Court will use that dispute to decide whether the so-called “discovery rule” applies to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act’s one-year statute of limitations and to potentially shed light on when the discovery rule will or will not apply to other statutes of limitations.
Jean-Claude André
Partner
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP
Litigation, Supreme Court & Appellate Law
Email: jcandre@sidley.com
J.C. is the West Coast head of Sidley's national Supreme Court and Appellate Practice. He can be reached at jcandre@sidley.com
Sometimes small cases hit the big stage. Rotkiske v. Klemm began with a debt collection agency filing a complaint in Philadelphia Municipal Court in 2008 to collect the $1,500 that the debtor owed his credit card company. Now, over a decade later, the Supreme Court will use that dispute to decide whether the so-called "discovery rule" applies to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act's one-year statute of limitations and to potentially shed...
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