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U.S. Supreme Court,
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9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Aug. 18, 2017

Questions left open in new Spokeo decision

The case involves whether a plaintiff has alleged a sufficiently concrete injury for purposes of Article II standing.

Randolph Hunter Pyle

Principal
Hunter Pyle Law

Labor & Employment

Phone: (510) 444-4400

Email: hunter@hunterpylelaw.com

UC Berkeley Boalt Hall

In addition to practicing law full time, Mr. Pyle is a Lecturer at Berkeley Law School where he teaches the Employment Law course to second and third year law students. He has also been a faculty member of the Stanford Law School Trial Advocacy Workshop for several yea

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Questions left open in new Spokeo decision
The U.S. Supreme Court building. (New York Times News Service)

After remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a second opinion in the case of Robins v. Spokeo, 2017 DJDAR 7859 (Aug. 16, 2017) (Spokeo II). The ruling clarifies the requirements for standing under the Fair Credit Report Act. At the same time, it leaves open two critical questions that will need to be resolved by future litigation.

The pl...

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