Legal Opinion
Sterk v. Redbox Automated Retail, LLC
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 6, 2012No. 12-8002PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Redbox, a company that specializes in renting DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, and video games to consumers from automated retail kiosks and is the defendant in this class action suit under the Video Privacy Protection Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2710, asks us to allow it to take an interlocutory appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b). The issue it wants to appeal is whether subsection (e) of the Act can be enforced by a damages suit under subsection (c). The district judge held that it can be; Redbox asks us to rule that it cannot be.
Interlocutory appeals are frowned on in the federal judicial…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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3Cited by46 opinions
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