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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 class members experienced no resulting injury. TransUnion provides the Supreme Court with an opportunit...

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 following question posed by TransUnion: “Whether either Article III or Rule 23 permits a damages class a...

(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 him to cancel a vacation. A car dealership was running his credit, when his name popped up on a govern...