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 Corporations should not be allowed to use contracts about one thing to prevent lawsuits about a totally different thing, nor should they be allowed to use contracts they were never part of in the first place to avoid consequences for breaking the law. Background Ramona Milam was threatened by her mortgage servicer,…
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…
What’s at Stake The FCC has abandoned the “one-to-one consent” rule, which would have prevented a telemarketer from selling consumers’ information to other telemarketers after the consumer consented to be contacted only by that one telemarketer. Details Four small business owners and the National Consumers League asked the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals for permission…
This case involves issues around digital contract formation and electronic signatures, which can be used by companies to bind their customers and employees to terms they might never see or know about. This is especially critical when those terms take away important rights, like the right to go to court. Susan Parisi, a veteran and…
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…
Our court system was designed to help individuals, businesses, and governments resolve their disputes. Part of access to justice means being able to use the courts to sue those who wrong you. This case is about whether a consumer can sue the federal government when it violates the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). The federal…
Active Day is a Medicaid provider that operates the country’s largest network of daytime care services for adults with developmental disabilities. The company provides these services in accordance with the Intellectual Disability/Related Disabilities Medicaid Waiver (ID/RD)—a program that permits states to offer an array of home and community-based services that an individual with intellectual disabilities…
Public Justice filed an amicus brief on behalf of Statutory Interpretation Scholars in Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County v. Talevski, a case brought before the U.S. Supreme Court that raises the question of whether § 1983 can be used to enforce Congress’s Spending Clause statutes. This case involves claims by the family of…