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SCOTUS Speaks on Government Debt Collection

In a unanimous opinion, this week, the United States Supreme Court held that attorneys hired by the Ohio Attorney General to collect government debt and directed by the Attorney General to use his office letterhead to send collection notices were not acting in an illegally deceptive manner.

As you might imagine, this sparked significant interest among those who pay attention to such things –Here’s a sampling of what’s been written:

• First, for an analysis of the opinion, you can check out this explainer from SCOTUSblog’s Ronald Mann
• The Oyez project has even more details, including the audio recording of the March 29, 2016 oral argument
• Our friends at Governing Magazine had a report
• ACA International filed this piece
• And here’s what JDSUPRA had to say

And that’s just a sampling. Interested in more? Just Google Sheriff v. Gillie