Estella H. Andrews v. Southern Discount Company of Georgia
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Non-Argument Calendar.
1Per curiam
Plaintiff filed this Truth-in-Lending (TIL) suit in federal court while an action was pending against her in state court on the underlying debt. Defendant moved to dismiss this suit on the ground the TIL claim must be asserted as a compulsory counterclaim in the state action.
The magistrate’s report, adopted by the district court, provided:
Although the defendant alleges dismissal of plaintiff’s action is appropriate under res judicata principles because plaintiff’s TIL claims are compulsory counterclaims in state court, dismissal is in fact inappropriate where the state action is still…
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