Legal Opinion
James Kehoe v. Fidelity Federal Bank & Trust
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 26, 2005No. 04-13306PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILSON, Circuit Judge:
This appeal requires that we engage in an exercise of statutory interpretation. The statute at issue is the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2721, et seq. (“DPPA”). Having considered the plain text of the statute, we conclude that a plaintiff need not prove actual damages to recover liquidated damages for a violation of the DPPA. Since the district court reached a contrary conclusion, we reverse and remand.
I. BACKGROUND
In 1994, Congress enacted the DPPA to limit the release of an individual’s personal information contained in his driver’s license record to…
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