Midland Credit Management, Inc. v. Jessica Saak
What's This Case About?
Let’s be real: nobody wakes up in Oklahoma dreaming about getting sued for $13,000 over two credit cards they haven’t touched in over a year. But that’s exactly what happened to Jessica Saak, who, as of December 2, 2025, found her name splashed across a court docket not for grand larceny or reckless dog ownership, but for failing to pay off a pair of credit accounts that were quietly sold to a debt collector who now wants every last penny—plus interest, court costs, and the emotional toll of being formally summoned by the state.
So who is Jessica Saak? We don’t know much, and that’s the point. She’s not a celebrity, not a politician, not even a viral TikToker with a pet raccoon named Sir Barksalot. She’s just… a person. A regular human who, like millions of Americans, probably opened a couple of credit cards during that brief window between job security and medical bills, thinking, “Yeah, I can handle this.” One was a Citibank Double Cash card, opened in February 2023—possibly to snag that sweet 2% cashback on groceries and gas. The other? A CareCredit card issued by Synchrony Bank, opened in August 2023, which is very often used for medical or dental expenses. That detail hits different. Was it braces? A root canal? Pet surgery? We may never know. But we do know this: by early 2024, the payments stopped. The last recorded payment on the Citibank card was May 16, 2024. For CareCredit? January 16, 2024. And by late summer of that year, both accounts were “charged off”—bank-speak for “we’ve given up on you paying us, so we’re writing this off as a loss… to us, but not to you, obviously.”
Enter Midland Credit Management, Inc.—the financial equivalent of a vulture that swoops in after the big banks have declared defeat. They don’t issue credit. They don’t offer rewards points. What they do is buy up defaulted debts for pennies on the dollar and then sue to collect the full amount. It’s a whole industry, and it’s booming. In this case, Midland purchased both of Jessica’s delinquent accounts—Citibank’s in September 2024, CareCredit’s in November 2024—and now, over a year later, they’re back with receipts, affidavits, and a legal team based in Oklahoma City, led by attorney William L. Nixon, Jr., and the firm Love, Beal & Nixon, P.C.—yes, really. The name sounds like a law firm from a 1950s detective novel, but they’re very much real, and very much in the business of collecting money for Midland.
The lawsuit itself is as straightforward as a highway with no exits. Count One: Jessica owes $5,155.17 on the Citibank account. Count Two: she owes $8,065.22 on the CareCredit account. Total? $13,220.39. That’s not chump change. That’s a used car down payment. That’s a year of rent in some parts of Oklahoma. That’s a lot of dental work. Midland isn’t asking for punitive damages, they’re not demanding an apology, they’re not even requesting a jury trial. They just want the money. And to prove it, they’ve attached not one, but two affidavits from one Samuel Liljenquist—a “Legal Specialist” at Midland, based in St. Cloud, Minnesota, who swears under penalty of perjury that all the records are accurate, that the accounts were properly assigned, and that yes, Jessica Saak owes every cent.
Now, let’s talk about what’s not in the filing. There’s no mention of hardship. No explanation from Jessica. No indication that she disputes the debt. No counterclaim. No dramatic backstory about a job loss, a medical emergency, or a sudden obsession with alpaca farming that drained her savings. This isn’t a “he said, she said” drama. It’s a corporate paperwork avalanche landing squarely on one person’s front porch. And that’s what makes it so quietly devastating. This isn’t about fraud. It’s not about lying or stealing. It’s about falling behind in a system that gives you no margin for error—and then getting hit with a lawsuit from a company you’ve never even met.
So why are we covering this? Because $13,000 might as well be a million bucks to someone living paycheck to paycheck. And because Midland Credit Management didn’t send a polite reminder. They didn’t offer a payment plan. They didn’t knock. They went straight to court. And while yes, debt is debt, and people should pay their bills—let’s not pretend the system isn’t tilted. Midland bought these debts for a fraction of their value. They’re not Citibank. They’re not Synchrony. They’re a third-party collector playing financial whack-a-mole with defaulted accounts across the country. And they’re doing it from Minnesota while suing an Oklahoma resident in Oklahoma County District Court, using affidavits signed the same day the petition was filed—December 2, 2025—like a perfectly timed legal microwave dinner.
What do they want? $13,220.39. Plus interest. Plus court costs. Plus the silent, soul-crushing weight of being a defendant in a civil suit. Is that a lot? For a credit card balance, maybe not. For a single person juggling rent, utilities, and maybe a kid or two? Absolutely. And here’s the kicker: if Jessica doesn’t respond to the lawsuit, Midland will likely get a default judgment—meaning they win by forfeit, no questions asked. No trial. No defense. Just a court stamp and a debt that now carries the full force of the legal system.
Our take? The most absurd part isn’t the amount. It’s the distance. Between the debtor and the debt buyer. Between the original lender and the courtroom. Between the person who needed dental care and the guy in Minnesota swearing under oath about her balance. This isn’t a story about irresponsibility. It’s a story about how debt becomes a commodity, traded and resold like fantasy football players, until the human on the other end is just a name on a spreadsheet. We’re not rooting for anyone to dodge their bills. But we are rooting for a system that doesn’t treat financial misfortune like a criminal offense. And we’re definitely rooting for Jessica Saak to at least get a chance to tell her side—because right now, she hasn’t even been heard. And in a court of law, that’s not justice. That’s just paperwork with consequences.
Case Overview
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Midland Credit Management, Inc.
business
Rep: LOVE, BEAL & NIXON, P.C.
- Jessica Saak individual
| # | Cause of Action | Description |
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| 1 | debt collection | collection of debt from defendant |
| 2 | debt collection | collection of debt from defendant |
Docket Events
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02/09/2026INDEBTINDEBTEDNESS
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02/09/2026DCADMIN155DISTRICT COURT ADMINISTRATIVE FEE ON $1.55 COLLECTIONS0.23
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02/09/2026DMFEDISPUTE MEDIATION FEE7.00
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02/09/2026SSFCHSCPCSHERIFF'S SERVICE FEE FOR COURTHOUSE SECURITY PER BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONER10.00
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02/09/2026
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02/09/2026CCADMINCSFCOURT CLERK ADMINISTRATIVE FEE ON COURTHOUSE SECURITY PER BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONER1.00
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02/09/2026PFE7LAW LIBRARY FEE6.00
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02/09/2026CCADMIN10COURT CLERK ADMIN FEE FOR $10 COLLECTION1.00
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02/09/2026TEXTCIVIL RELIEF MORE THAN $10,000 INITIAL FILING.
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02/09/2026CCADMIN0155COURT CLERK ADMINISTRATIVE FEE ON $1.55 COLLECTION0.16
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02/09/2026DCADMIN10DISTRICT COURT ADMIN FEE FOR $10 COLLECTION1.50
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02/09/2026LTFLENGTHY TRIAL FUND10.00
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02/09/2026SJFISSTATE JUDICIAL REVOLVING FUND - INTERPRETER AND TRANSLATOR SERVICES0.45
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02/09/2026CCRMPFCOURT CLERK'S RECORDS MANAGEMENT AND PRESERVATION FEE10.00
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02/09/2026OCISROKLAHOMA COURT INFORMATION SYSTEM REVOLVING FUND25.00
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02/09/2026PFE1PETITION163.00
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02/09/2026OCASAOKLAHOMA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES10.00
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02/09/2026OCJCOKLAHOMA COUNCIL ON JUDICIAL COMPLAINTS REVOLVING FUND1.55
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02/09/2026TEXTOCIS HAS AUTOMATICALLY ASSIGNED JUDGE BONNER, ANTHONY L. TO THIS CASE.
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02/09/2026ACCOUNT
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02/09/2026DCADMINCSFDISTRICT COURT ADMINISTRATIVE FEE ON COURTHOUSE SECURITY PER BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONER1.50
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02/09/2026SMFSUMMONS FEE (CLERKS FEE)10.00
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02/17/2026SMSSUMMONS RETURNED, SERVED: JESSICA SAAK, SERVED ON 2-14-2026 BY LEAVING A COPY WITH JOHN DOE📄 View Document