"Johnson then sued Midland, "seeking actual damages, statutory damages, attorney's fees, and costs for a violation" of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, claiming that its filing a proof of claim on an obviously time-barred debt was 'false,' 'deceptive,' 'misleading,' 'unconscionable,' and 'unfair'.The Court claimed that collection agencies "do not engage in a false, deceptive or unfair practice by filing stale, unenforceable claims against a person in bankruptcy—even though the whole point of those claims is to fool people into paying money they are not legally obligated to pay".