11th Circuit Opening Brief Due May 23 in Fake Government Services Suit

The opening brief is due May 23 at the 11th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court from defendant-appellants Burton Katz and Brent Levison in their appeal of a March 14 lower-court order imposing a $19.6 million judgment against them in compensatory monetary relief for civil contempt, said a memorandum Thursday (docket 23-11197). The answering brief from plaintiff-appellee FTC is due 30 days later, said the memorandum. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida found Katz and Levison, co-owners of the venture On Point Global, to have bilked consumers out of millions of dollars through a series of deceptive trade practices. Katz and Levison were found to have operated a network of websites that took money from consumers by promising to perform government transactions for them, such as renewing a driver’s license, but failing to deliver on those services. A September 2021 contempt order found they violated a 2014 injunction barring them from deceptive trade activity.