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The Electronic Privacy Information Center is pushing the U.S. Supreme Court to allow consumer lawsuits that allege statutory privacy breaches to move forward in federal courts, arguing that lower courts that have required plaintiffs to show additional consequential harm have overstepped their judicial role.

Some Houstonians still without power even as vast majority of lights are turned back on KTRK Share: Outdoor grills are makeshift stoves. "You do feel forgotten, you feel a little bit left behind," said Sergio Ramirez, who sat at the door of the apartment he shares with his sister and a cat. They last saw power four days ago. This Gulfton area complex is one of the last places in Houston where power is not yet restored. "Im upset but Im not surprised," said a resident, who points out that reside...

Wednesday, February 17, 2021 On March 30, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether a damages class action, is permitted by Article III of the Constitution or Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure where the majority of the class has suffered no actual injury. Notably, this is the first time the Supreme Court will apply the rulings of  Spokeo, which held that a plaintiff “cannot satisfy the demands of Article III by alleging a bare procedural violation,” to an ent...

Courtesy of El Deseo/Nico Bustos, Mark Mann, Austin Hargrave Edson Jeans Ludi will open a 2021 edition with in-theater and online screenings and Jayme Gershens Birthright will close the event. The Miami Film Festival is set to go ahead with a hybrid 2021 edition in March with physical theater and online screenings amid the pandemic. The Festivals March 5-14 run this year will open with an in-theater world premiere of Edson Jean’s Ludi — about a hardworking and exhausted nurse chasing the ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The United States Supreme Court has again granted a petition to examine standing in the context of class actions, specifically whether Article III of the Constitution permits members of a certified class to recover money damages when members of the certified class suffered no actual injury. This issue was presented to the Supreme Court after the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion and order in Ramirez v. TransUnion LLC, 951 F.3d 1008 (9t...

The U.S. Supreme Court granted review last week in TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez, which presents the question of whether Article III or Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure permits a damages class action where most class members experienced no actual injury. This question has taken on increasing urgency over the past several years, as plaintiffs and their counsel routinely seek classwide statutory damages on claims for technical violations of statutory requirements even though most clas...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: 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 the Supreme Court’s most important ruling in the consumer financial services space since its 2016 ruling in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins. In TransUnion, LLC. v. Ramirez, the Supreme Court agreed to decide the follow...

(Image via Courthouse News) WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to hear a credit-reporting company’s challenge to a $40 million class action verdict said to wrongly assume that all 8,185 members were harmed by being misidentified as terrorists, drug traffickers or other enemies of state. In the case at hand, lead plaintiff Sergio Ramirez says that an inaccurate credit report from TransUnion embarrassed him in front of family, hindered his ability to secure credit and led hi...