{"id":11390,"date":"2016-05-16T08:50:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T16:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spokeo.com\/compass\/?p=11390"},"modified":"2022-04-13T12:15:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T20:15:59","slug":"supreme-court-sides-with-spokeo-official-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spokeo.com\/compass\/supreme-court-sides-with-spokeo-official-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Sides With Spokeo – Official Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier today, the Supreme Court announced its decision<\/a> in\u00a0\u201cSpokeo, Inc. v. Robins\u201d on the very important issue of whether the Constitution permits a lawsuit to proceed merely on the allegation that federal law has been violated when the plaintiff cannot claim that he has been harmed in a concrete way.<\/p>\n

With its opinion in the Spokeo v. Robins case, the Supreme Court has squarely rejected the contention that merely alleging a violation of a statute alone gives a plaintiff standing to bring a claim under federal law on behalf of a class of hundreds of thousands or millions of people. The Court reaffirmed that each member of a proposed plaintiff class has to prove \u201ca \u2018concrete\u2019 injury\u201d and said that \u201cconcrete\u201d means \u201c\u2018real\u2019 and not \u2018abstract.\u2019\u201d The Court has asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to address whether Mr. Robins has met that requirement of \u201creal\u201d harm. Spokeo believes he has not, but even if he has, the Court\u2019s standard will make it much harder to turn individual cases like this one into million-member class actions. Spokeo looks forward to the chance to continue advocating against no-injury class action lawsuits that threaten American businesses and the overall economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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