Katharine Keches v. Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC
In a small claims debt-collection case, the Fourth DCA reversed a final judgment entered after a pro se defendant was unable to connect to a Zoom hearing in time, holding that her explanatory letter must be liberally construed as a motion for new trial or relief from judgment and that Zoom connectivity failures may constitute excusable neglect.
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