Chairman of the Board of Directors at The Heartland Institute
Joseph A. Morris is a partner at the law firm of Morris & De La Rosa and is the chairman of The Heartland Institute Board of Directors. Mr. Morris served under President Reagan as Assistant Attorney General of the United States.
Latest posts by Joseph Morris (see all)
- Midge Rosenthal Decter, R.I.P. - May 10, 2022
- Anthony Mockus, R.I.P. - April 5, 2022
- Arnold Schwarzenegger Appeals to Russian Public Opinion to Stop the War on Ukraine - March 18, 2022
On Monday of this week, the Supreme Court handed down the first decision written by Justice Neil Gorsuch.
Writing for a unanimous Court affirming the Fourth Circuit in Henson v. Santander Consumer USA, Inc., Justice Gorsuch held that a debt collector seeking to collect a debt that was owed to itself was not obliged to obey an act of Congress that regulates the activities of debt collectors seeking to collect debts owed to third parties.
Justice Gorsuch’s opinion is concise and eminently readable. Non-lawyer consumers, lawyers, and even Federal judges will understand it. He holds that a statute applies to those to whom it says it applies, and not to others.
