Court Opinion

ID: 9766699
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 04:56:50.348508+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:24.733021
License: Public Domain

RUIZ, Associate Judge,
concurring:
I fully join Judge Ferren’s opinion for the court holding that, because of the presumptions operative at this early juncture in the litigation, an analysis of the underlying claims’ ties to the District of Columbia favor application of the law of the forum. Our analysis at this point has not required an in-depth review of the corresponding provisions of relevant D.C. and Wisconsin law for the protection of consumer debtors, because we have proceeded from the trial court’s determination — not challenged by the parties — that both states have “essentially equal interests in protection of consumers.” See ante at 176. Therefore we have not had occasion to consider whether, if Wisconsin’s interest in consumer protection would be furthered by application of D.C. law in this instance, this case presents a “false conflict” of laws. See Kaiser-Georgetown Community Health Plan, Inc. v. Stutsman, 491 A.2d 502, 509-11 (D.C.1985).