The Eleventh Circuit handed the EEOC another recent defeat in U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. St. Joseph’s Hospital, Inc., No. 15-14551, 2016 WL 7131479 (11th Cir. Dec. 7, 2016). The case involved cross-appeals after a jury found that the defendant hospital had acted in good faith despite its failure to accommodate a disabled nurse…
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Filing Proof of Stale Claim in Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Held to Violate FDCPA
In the consolidated appeals of Johnson v. Midland Funding, LLC and Brock v. Resurgent Capital Services, L.P., Nos. 15-11240 and 15-14116, 2016 WL 2996372 (11th Cir. May 24, 2016), the Eleventh Circuit doubled down on its previous holding that filing “a proof of claim to collect a stale debt in Chapter 13 bankruptcy violates the…