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Spokeo seeks Supreme Court review to address standing in privacy cases again

( December 4, 2017, 23:15 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Attorneys for Spokeo have petitioned the US Supreme Court to review for a second time a privacy lawsuit filed by Thomas Robins after the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that he has standing to sue the people-search website for allegedly violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act because he suffered sufficient concrete injuries. Spokeo says the latest Ninth Circuit decision in the case was wrongly decided, and that federal appeals courts are deeply divided on the issue of standing after the Supreme Court's first ruling. "The lower courts’ disarray over how to determine when an alleged intangible harm qualifies as injury in-fact exists cries out for this Court’s review," Spokeo wrote in its petition to the court.Please see petition below:...

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