The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit revived a case that closed three years ago. It found some claims from a pro se litigant against JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. over an alleged false entry on a credit report should not have been dismissed.

U.S. District Judge William Zloch had dismissed the lawsuit in 2016, agreeing with a magistrate judge’s findings that West Palm Beach resident John Pinson had failed to state a claim. But that was the wrong move, according to the Eleventh Circuit, which said the plaintiff should have had the chance to prove three plausible allegations under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

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