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WASTE OF TIME: Columbia Debt Recovery LLC d/b/a Genesis Credit Properly Removed TCPA Claim to Federal Court Finds Court
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Quick weird one for you all.

In Kellyman v. Columbia Debt, 2025 WL 2609459 (M.D. Fl. Sept. 10, 2025) the pro se Plaintiff Jamar Kellyman moved to remand a TCPA case to state court.

The case had originally been filed in state court but the defendant removed the case on federal question grounds.

Kellyman challenged the removal arguing the $75k diversity threshhold had not been hit in the case. But since federal question removal has no minimum controversy requirement this argument was totally invalid.

The court denied the remand request and exercised supplemental jurisdiction over the state law claim.

Total waste of the court’s time. But I guess good for folks to keep in mind– if you are sued in a TCPA case you can ALWAYS remove to federal court (and you will almost always want to.)

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