Judge keeps suit alive against state of Florida over unemployment compensation system
A Tallahassee judge Friday shot down a request to dismiss a lawsuit against the state alleging it failed to maintain its online unemployment compensation application system.
Circuit Judge John Cooper told attorneys for the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO), which oversees unemployment benefits, that he wants to examine evidence in the case, filed on behalf of hundreds of thousands of Floridians who lost their jobs in the coronavirus pandemic.
The suit was lodged earlier this month by Tallahassee attorneys Marie Mattox and Gautier Kitchen. It names over a dozen individuals who say they were unable to complete the application because of flaws in the software used and bureaucratic red tape.
Mattox and Kitchen want the judge to order DEO to fix the system within 48 hours and immediately award compensation to more than 400,000 applicants who have had their claims rejected or on appeal.
Read more: https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2020/05/22/judge-denies-request-scuttle-lawsuit-over-florida-unemployment-system/5244060002/
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