The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld sanctions against a hearing-impaired Florida man a district court judge had found filed frivolous disability discrimination lawsuits as part of an “unethical fee-sharing arrangement” with his lawyer.

The man, Alexander Johnson, will have to pay $6,000 and complete 50 hours of community service annually for three years after a district court in 2019 found that Johnson filed more than two-dozen federal lawsuits against South Florida gas stations in order to collect legal fees and split them 50-50 between himself and his now-suspended attorney, Scott Dinin.