Legal Opinion
Long v. Se. Pa. Transp. Auth.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided September 10, 2018No. 17-1889PublishedCited by 122 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FISHER, Circuit Judge.
This case raises again the frequently-litigated question of whether violation of a statute-here, the Fair Credit Reporting Act-is an injury in fact that satisfies the Constitution's "case or controversy" requirement. The District Court concluded that the plaintiffs did not allege a concrete injury in fact and therefore dismissed their complaint for lack of jurisdiction. We affirm in part and reverse in part.
I. Background
The complaint alleges the following facts. The three named plaintiffs were convicted of drug offenses in the relatively distant past: Michael White in…
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