Supreme Court To Consider Actual Injury Requirement for Absent Class Members | Foley & Lardner LLP
Today, the United States Supreme Court granted a writ of certiorari in Trans Union LLC v. Ramirez. At issue is an eight-figure judgment obtained by a certified class of consumers for statutory and punitive damages based on violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”), which was upheld by a divided Ninth Circuit panel. The Supreme Court’s order accepts the following Question Presented for review: “Whether either Article III or Rule 23 permits a damages class action where the vast majority of the class suffered no actual injury, let alone an injury anything like what the class ...
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