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"MARSHALL - A Marshall woman has filed a lawsuit claiming that a debt collection agency repeatedly called her at work and threatened to put a lien on her property if she did not repay her debt.&nbsp;<br /><br />Becky Byassee filed suit against Portfolio Recovery Associates on Feb. 11 in federal court in the Marshall Division of the Eastern District of Texas.<br /><br />The lawsuit involves a debt arising from a Citibank Visa card. According to the lawsuit, between February and September of 2012, the defendant placed repeated telephone calls to Byassee&rsquo; work and home telephone number.<br /><br />Byassee states she has asked the defendant to stop calling, but the calls continued.<br /><br />&ldquo;Defendant&rsquo;s collectors threatened to put a lien on Plaintiff&rsquo;s property, and threatened her with a lawsuit,&rdquo; the lawsuit states.<br /><br />The defendant is accused of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Texas Fair Debt Collection Act, the Texas Finance Code and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.<br /><br />The plaintiff is seeking an award of actual damages, statutory damages, attorney&rsquo;s fees, court costs, consequential damages and punitive damages.<br /><br />Byassee is represented by Amy L. Bennecoff of Kimmel &amp; Silverman PC in Ambler, Penn. &nbsp;A jury trial is requested.<br /><br />U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap is assigned to the case.<br /><br />Case No. 2:13-cv-00113"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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