Article: Utahn sues in tiff over cell-phone bill

Janet Perry thought her cell phone contract with AT&T Wireless had expired.

Yet for years, Perry kept receiving bills from AT&T, insisting that she owed the wireless carrier money, despite her repeated explanations that the contract was over and she had paid her balance in full.

Nearly a decade later, Perry is still fighting more than $1,800 in cell phone charges billed to her after her contract expired.

Last week Perry filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against Palisades Collection, a New Jersey-based collection agency, and the law office of Mitchell N. Kay P.C., which specializes in the collection of debts, alleging that the defendants violated federal statutes by using deceptive means ...

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