What’s at Stake Standing is the legal principle that decides who gets to bring a lawsuit. Traditionally, a person who has experienced the violation of a statute has standing to bring a claim for that violation. For example, the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) says that people can bring claims when a credit reporting agency…
What’s at Stake This case is about whether the First Appellate District of the California Court of Appeals will continue to recognize that having statutory claims is enough to sue in state court or whether it will follow the federal courts and require concrete harm separate from the statutory violation itself to bring a lawsuit.…
What’s at Stake Standing is the legal principle that decides who gets to bring a lawsuit. Traditionally, a person who has experienced the violation of a statute has standing to bring a claim for that violation. For example, the California Fair Debt Buying Practices Act (CFDBPA) says that people can bring claims when a debt…
What’s at Stake Standing is the legal principle that decides who gets to bring a lawsuit. Traditionally, a person who has experienced the violation of a statute has standing to bring a claim for that violation. For example, the California Investigative Consumer Reporting Agencies Act (ICRAA) says that people can bring claims when an employer…
What’s at Stake Standing is the legal principle that decides who gets to bring a lawsuit. Traditionally, a person who experienced the violation of a statute has standing to bring a claim for that violation. For example, the federal Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA) says that consumers can bring claims when a merchant…
What’s at Stake Standing is the legal principle that decides who gets to bring a lawsuit. Traditionally, a person who has experienced the violation of a statute has standing to bring a claim for that violation. For example, the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act says that when a debt collector violates the Act by…
What’s at Stake Standing is the legal principle that decides who gets to bring a lawsuit. Typically, a person needs to have been injured by the actions of another to have standing to bring a lawsuit. But in recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court has narrowed which injuries “count,” allowing more bad behavior to go…
In 2020, Samuel Voss purchased property in Cincinnati, Ohio. The seller used the proceeds from the sale to satisfy his mortgage with Rocket Mortgage (formerly Quicken Loans, LLC), but Rocket Mortgage did not report satisfaction of the mortgage with the county recorder’s office until after the 90-day deadline set by Ohio’s mortgage-recording statute. Mr. Voss sued…
We are lead counsel in this appeal of a dismissal of a multistate class action alleging that the defendant pharmaceutical companies violated various state consumer protection statutes by purposely packaging their prescription eye drops in droppers that emitted a far larger drop than is therapeutically necessary. The plaintiffs cited studies concluding that packaging producing a…