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What did the court decide in Obduskey v. McCarthy & Holthus LLP?

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In our view, the last sentence does (with its §1692f(6) exception) place those whose "principal purpose . . . is the enforcement of security interests" outside the scope of the primary "debt collector" definition, §1692a(6), where the business is engaged in no more than the kind of security-interest enforcement at issue here—nonjudicial foreclosure proceedings.

The Court held that a business doing no more than nonjudicial foreclosure is not a 'debt collector' under most of the FDCPA, except for the limited purpose of section 1692f(6). The sentence above is the court in its own words.

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