Case Name: Elaine MARSHALL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Frederick J. HANNA and Associates, P.C., Defendant-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2016-12-16
Citations: 671 F. App'x 766
Docket Number: No. 15-15417
Parties: Elaine MARSHALL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Frederick J. HANNA and Associates, P.C., Defendant-Appellee.
Judges: Before WILLIAM PRYOR and ROSENBAUM, Circuit Judges, and MARTINEZ, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 671
Pages: 766–767

Head Matter:
Elaine MARSHALL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Frederick J. HANNA and Associates, P.C., Defendant-Appellee.
No. 15-15417
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
Date Filed: 12/16/2016
David Neal McDevitt, Thompson Consumer Law Group, Mesa, AZ, Marques J. Carter, Law Office of Marques J. Carter, LLC, Douglasville, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellant
Michael Kevin Chapman, John Henry Bedard, Jr., David A. Kleber, Bedard Law Group, PC, Duluth, GA, for Defendant-Appellee
Before WILLIAM PRYOR and ROSENBAUM, Circuit Judges, and MARTINEZ, District Judge.
Honorable Jose E. Martinez, United States District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
The only issue in this appeal is whether the venue provision of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1692i(a)(2), applies to garnishment proceedings under Georgia law. That issue is controlled by recent binding precedent. See Ray v. McCullough Payne & Haan, 838 F.3d 1107 (11th Cir. 2016). The venue provision of the Act requires "[a]ny debt collector who brings any legal action on a debt against any consumer" to "bring such action only in the judicial district . in which such consumer signed the contract sued upon; or in which such consumer resides at the commencement of the action." 15 U.S.C. § 1629i(a)(2). We held in Ray that the provision does not apply to garnishment proceedings brought under Georgia law because those proceedings are "fundamentally an action against the garnishee, not the consumer." Ray, at 1111. Frederick J. Hanna and Associates obtained a judgment against Elaine Marshall and then filed a garnishment action in Georgia against her employer. Because this garnishment proceeding was against the garnishee, Marshall's employer, and not the consumer, Marshall, the venue provision of the Act does not apply.
We AFFIRM the judgment of the district court.