(November 22, 2017, 1:34 PM EST) -- PASADENA, Calif. — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Nov. 17 affirmed a district court’s decision granting summary judgment for a mortgage lender, finding that a claim for violation of the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) asserted by borrowers was time-barred and that the lender was not a debt collector within the meaning of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) (Bessie Lee-Freitas Pregana v. CitiMortgage Inc., et al., No. 15-15906, 9th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 23234)....