Nearly a year after the COVID-19 pandemic began tossing people out of work, a circuit judge is again poised to consider a potential class-action lawsuit stemming from major problems in Florida’s unemployment compensation system.

Leon County Circuit Judge John Cooper heard arguments about whether he should dismiss the lawsuit filed against the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity and Deloitte Consulting, a contractor that helped put the state’s CONNECT online unemployment system in place in 2013.

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