Articles

Largely lost in the hullaballoo yesterday, the Supreme Court dismissed First American v. Edwards as "improvidently granted."  It did not give any reasons for the dismissal. This case asked whether a plaintiff who suffered no injury whatsoever from a defendant's technical violation of statute could pursue a class action in federal court.  Article ...

Spokeo Inc., runs a website that collects and publishes consumer "credit estimates."  Thomas Robins, an unemployed man, sued Spokeo for willful violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), alleging that Spokeo published false information, such as Robins was married, had a graduate degree, and was wealthy.  The trial court held that this pu ...

Article III of the United States Constitution allows federal courts to hear only "cases or controversies," defined as cases brought by plaintiffs who have suffered actual (not speculative) harm that can be redressed by court action. What if a plaintiff's asserted injury, however, is nothing more than that the defendant violated a statute? That is, ...