“Injury-in-fact is not Mount Everest,” Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito once opined. The threshold to establish constitutional standing — which requires that plaintiffs establish an “injury-in-fact” — is low; so low that in most types of lawsuits, plaintiffs have no trouble scaling the requirement. While standing may not be Mount Everest, in consumer privacy lawsuits,
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The Northern District of Illinois Rejects Plaintiff’s Attempt to Conjure Up a Class Action Based on a Call Not Meant for Him.
By Jordan Vick on
A growing trend in TCPA litigation is for plaintiffs to bring putative TCPA class actions based on telephone calls that were meant for a third-party who actually provided consent for the call. In a strongly worded opinion, Judge Virginia M. Kendall of the Northern District of Illinois recently dealt a blow to one such attempt…