In a June 25, 2017 article in "The Washington Post", journalist Adam Winkler observed that there has been a shift in Supreme Court decisions towards favoring corporations. In a May 15, 2017 ruling, the Supreme Court found in favor of Midland Funding, a debt collection company in the Johnson's Chapter 13 bankruptcy case. The Alabama Bankruptcy Court rejected Midland's lawsuit against Johnson for the credit-card debt of $1,879.71, which was a 'stale claim'. as Johnson was under bankruptcy protection. "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".