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Eighth Circuit Holds Article III Standing Was Lacking for an Alleged Violation of the FCRA’s “Pre-Adverse Action” Notice Provision

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On April 4, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit joined the Ninth Circuit in holding that a plaintiff lacked Article III standing to prosecute her statutory claims under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)...more

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Supreme Court Reinforces Limits on Federal Court Standing, But Important Questions Remain

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On June 25, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court decided TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez, revisiting some of the Article III standing principles it had set forth in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins, 578 U.S. 330 (2016), and addressing their...more

King & Spalding

Fifth Circuit Holds Plaintiff Has Standing to Sue Under TCPA for Receipt of Single Text Message, Parting Ways with Eleventh...

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On May 26, 2021, the Fifth Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) putative class action arising from the transmission of a single text message to the plaintiff. The...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Issues Pivotal Article III Standing Opinion, Reversing $40 Million Judgment in FCRA Class Action

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On June 25, 2021, the Supreme Court issued a decision in TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez, a highly anticipated appeal that we previously covered in our March and December issues last year. In a 5–4 opinion, the Supreme Court...more

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SCOTUS reaffirms standing requires “a harm traditionally recognized as providing a basis for a lawsuit in American courts,”...

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Recently, we have written about the “entrepreneurial model” of lawyer-driven class actions and how a case’s entrepreneurial features can give rise to various defenses, including lack of standing. As we’ve explained, where...more

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TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez: “Concrete Harm” Requirement Clarified in Consumer Class Actions

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On June 25, 2021, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in TransUnion v. Ramirez, holding that consumer class action claims under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) must allege the actual spread of misleading...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

US Supreme Court Clarifies Injury-in-Fact Plaintiffs Must Show To Have Standing To Assert Statutory Privacy Rights in Federal...

On June 25, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision in TransUnion v. Ramirez that clarified the injury-in-fact plaintiffs must show to have standing to assert statutory privacy rights in federal court. This follows...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Supreme Court Addresses Class Action Standing in Ramirez Case: Requires “Concrete” Injury for Article III Standing for Class...

The Supreme Court further limited consumer lawsuits in TransUnion, LLC v. Ramirez, siding with credit reporting agency TransUnion in a 5-4 decision holding that thousands of consumers improperly flagged as potential...more

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California District Court Dismisses Putative Class Action Against Apple on Article III Standing Grounds Where Privacy Claims...

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Since the Supreme Court’s decision in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins, 136 S. Ct. 1540 (2016), courts have grappled with what constitutes a sufficient injury in fact to satisfy Article III standing requirements. Predominant Issues...more

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Supreme Court To Weigh Threshold for Article III ‘Injury’ in Class Claims for Statutory Damages

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The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on March 30, 2021, in a case that will help clarify when an intangible, nonmonetary injury is sufficiently “concrete and particularized” to give rise to Article III standing. The...more

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Lopez v. Apple: When an Alleged Injury is Too Speculative to Confer Article III Standing

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A recent decision from the Northern District of California — Lopez, et al. v. Apple — highlights the continued impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins in shaping Article III standing...more

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SCOTUS agrees to review FCRA class action judgment where most class members suffered no actual injury

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The Supreme Court has granted certiorari to review a $40 million class action trial judgment for statutory and punitive damages under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and its forthcoming decision later this Term will likely be...more

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En Banc Eleventh Circuit Vacates Order Approving Class Settlement, Holding that Plaintiff Lacked Article III Standing Where Bare...

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On October 28, 2020, the en banc Eleventh Circuit reversed the Northern District of Georgia’s approval of a class settlement, holding that the settlement was invalid because the named plaintiff did not have standing to sue...more

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Supreme Court Declines to Resolve Circuit Split on TCPA Standing

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On December 16, 2019, the Supreme Court denied DISH Network’s petition for certiorari seeking to overturn a $61 million judgment for Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) violations based on telemarking calls made to...more

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Supreme Court Sidesteps Class Settlement Issue to Remand, Questioning Article III Standing Under Spokeo

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On March 20, 2019, in Frank v. Gaos, 586 U.S. ___ (2019), the United States Supreme Court sidestepped a novel question regarding a cy pres class action settlement, instead remanding the case back to the lower courts with...more

Butler Snow LLP

All Rise? Article III Standing Continues To Face Strict Scrutiny

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In 2016, the United States Supreme Court issued a landmark opinion addressing Article III standing under the U.S. Constitution. See Spokeo v. Robins, ––– U.S. ––––, 136 S. Ct. 1540, 194 L.Ed.2d 635 (2016). The “standing to...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Injury-in-Fact vs. Actual Damages — Avoiding a Jurisdictional Sideshow in Data Breach Class Actions by Challenging Damages, Not...

Following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Spokeo v. Robins, which held that federal plaintiffs alleging a statutory violation must have suffered a real, concrete injury in order to have Article III standing, many defendants...more

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Supreme Court Watch: Justices Seek Briefing on Potential Application of Spokeo

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Here at FCRAland, we frequently discuss cases applying the Supreme Court’s 2016 case Spokeo v. Robbins.  That case specified that, for a plaintiff to have standing under FCRA, the plaintiff would need to allege an injury that...more

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New York Court Poised to Offer Interpretation of the Supreme Court’s Spokeo Standing Requirements

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On September 14, 2016, defendant JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (“Chase”) moved for summary judgment on plaintiff Tina Bellino’s putative class action complaint, which alleges that Chase violated New York state law by presenting...more

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False report of prison time satisfies Spokeo’s requirement of injury in fact

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In Landry v. Thomson Reuters Corp., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 162741 (D. N.H. Sept. 24, 2018), a putative class action, a key issue was whether the Plaintiff’s amended complaint–which alleged Thomson Reuters Corporation (“TRC”)...more

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Spokeo IV: Cert Denied and the Circuit Splits Left Behind

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On January 22, 2018, the United States Supreme Court denied a petition for writ of certiorari in Spokeo v. Robins – bringing an end to an appellate saga that started in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals before heading up to...more

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Supreme Court Will Not Look at Spokeo Again, Leaving Lower Courts to Grapple with Article III Uncertainties

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On January 22, 2018, the United States Supreme Court, quietly and without commentary, declined to review the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ recent decision in the storied Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins case. In 2016, the Supreme...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Supreme Court Rejects Spokeo Review

Once was enough, the U.S. Supreme Court signaled when it denied a writ of certiorari filed by Spokeo, Inc., seeking further clarification on Article III standing....more

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Supreme Court Says No More Spokeo: Portents for Other Standing Cases?

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Earlier this week, the Supreme Court denied a petition for writ of certiorari in Spokeo II. As we previously reported, Spokeo II asked the Court to determine, in light of conflicting circuit court decisions, whether...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Second Bid for Review in Spokeo

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied the petition for certiorari seeking review of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit's most recent decision in Spokeo v. Robins (Spokeo II), foregoing an opportunity to clarify...more

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