- Volume 2 (2016), Issue 3
- Vol. 2 (2016), No. 3
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- Pages 428 - 431
- pp. 428 - 431
US Supreme Court Fails to Clarify ‘Standing’ Doctrine in Consumer Privacy Case
Spokeo, Inc v Robins, 136 Supreme Court 1540 (2016)
Article III of the US Constitution requires plaintiffs in federal court to have suffered an injury-in-fact that is fairly traceable to the defendant and likely to be redressed by the court. The plaintiff’s injury-in-fact must be concrete, particularized, and actual or imminent. The US Supreme Court found that the federal appeals court did not analyse the concreteness of plaintiff Thomas Robins’s allegation that Spokeo, Inc violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The case is remanded so the appeals court can consider whether the allegation is concrete.