The business community’s fear of massive class-action liability and consumers’ quest for privacy and accuracy in the Internet age collided before a divided U.S. Supreme Court on Monday in a case that involved the data collection website Spokeo Inc.
Those two themes hovered over the bedrock issue before the justices in Spokeo v. Robins: Did Congress have the power to give individuals the right to bring lawsuits for violations of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act alone, without having to show the traditional requirement in the Constitution of a concrete injury independent of the statute?
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