SAN FRANCISCO — Applying the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Spokeo decision, a federal judge Wednesday dismissed a proposed class action against Lyft Inc. over the company’s alleged failure to tell drivers it was performing background and credit checks on them.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero of the Northern District of California agreed with Lyft’s lawyers at Mayer Brown that the suit was barred by the high court’s recent decision in Spokeo v. Robbins, which held that plaintiffs do not have standing to bring civil suits for bare violations of the law unless they have suffered concrete injury.
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