Court Opinion

ID: 9765079
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 03:50:09.630678+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:04.767886
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ROBERTS, Justice,
concurring.
Unlike the majority, I believe this private litigation, which in no respect affects substantial rights or duties of the United States government, is governed not by federal but by state common law. See Miree v. DeKalb County, 433 U.S. 25, 97 S.Ct. 2490, 53 L.Ed.2d 557 (1977). I am, however, of the view that appellant can present appellees’ alleged Truth in Lending Act violations by way of recoupment. As Standard Pennsylvania Practice points out,
“Recoupment is the act of rebating or recouping a part of a claim upon which one is sued by means of a legal or equitable right resulting from a counterclaim arising out of the same transaction. It is the right of the defendant to claim in the same action damages from the plaintiff, either because he has not complied with some cross obligation of the contract upon which he sues, or because he has violated some duty which the law imposed upon him in the making or performance of that contract . . . .”
4 Std.Pa.Prac. Ch. 15 § 2 pp. 391-92 (1955) (footnotes omitted). Thus, I would reverse the order of the Superior Court and remand the proceedings to permit appellant to present the alleged Truth in Lending Act violations.