January 23, 2017
The Third and Seventh circuits on Friday offered their conflicting takes on whether a claimed statutory privacy violation is enough to establish standing under the U.S. Supreme Court's Spokeo ruling, highlighting a potentially more welcoming atmosphere in the Third Circuit and placing a significant emphasis on exactly how a plaintiff's privacy rights were allegedly violated.
January 20, 2017
The Seventh Circuit on Friday affirmed the dismissal of a Time Warner Cable Inc. subscriber's proposed class action against the company for storing former customers' personal information, saying the man had neither alleged nor offered any evidence of concrete harm, citing Spokeo.
January 04, 2017
Multiple judges on a Seventh Circuit panel Wednesday made clear they believe a class action brought against Time Warner Cable Inc. over its alleged storage of former customers' information should stay dead Wednesday, telling the customers’ attorney no one was harmed by the company’s actions.
November 04, 2016
Time Warner Cable told the Seventh Circuit on Thursday that a lower court was correct to nix a putative class action accusing it of unlawfully retaining former subscribers' personal data, arguing the absence of any allegations that data was disclosed or misused doomed the plaintiff's claims under the U.S. Supreme Court's Spokeo decision.
October 12, 2016
A trio of consumer advocacy groups on Tuesday urged the Seventh Circuit to revive a putative class action accusing Time Warner Cable of unlawfully retaining former subscribers' personal data, arguing that the statutory violations alleged by the plaintiff easily met the standing bar set by the U.S. Supreme Court's Spokeo decision.