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Emotional Injury as Privacy Harm

Posted on June 22, 2011 by pogowasright.org

William McGeveran writes:

Perhaps lost in all the understandable attention to yesterday’s Supreme Court decision in the Wal-Mart class action case, the Court also granted cert. in a potentially significant privacy law case, FAA v. Cooper.

SCOTUSBlog has collected the documents in the case here. The formal question presented in the case is:

Whether a plaintiff who alleges only mental and emotional injuries can establish “actual damages” within the meaning of the civil remedies provision of the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. 552a(g)(4)(A).

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