Defendant JB&R appealed the Sixth Circuit decision to the United States Supreme Court, yet the Supreme Court declined to hear the case. Javitch, Block & Rathbone, LLP v. Hartman, 130 S. Ct. 1688 (2010). Subsequently, in Jerman v. Carlisle, McNellie, Rini, Kramer & Ulrich LPA, 130 S.Ct. 1605 (2010), the Supreme Court held that the bona fide error defense was not available for a lawyer's mistaken interpretation of the legal requirements of the FDCPA, but expressly declined to address whether a misinterpretation of the requirements of state law was the proper subject of a bona fide error defense.