Legal Opinion

Ellis v. Montgomery County

District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania

Decided January 27, 2017No. CIVIL ACTION NO. 16-2143PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

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WENDY BEETLESTONE, J.

Plaintiffs Antoine Ellis and Daniel Speakman have brought this putative state-law class action asserting federal court jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act (“CAFA”), 28 U.S.C. § 1332(d), on behalf of themselves and all others whose arrest records and personal information were made widely available on the Internet through the Inmate Locator maintained by Defendants Montgomery County and the Montgomery County Correctional Facility, allegedly in violation of the Pennsylvania Criminal History Records Information Act (“CHRIA”), 18 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 9101 et…

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  5. Moore v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1852

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