United States Eleventh Circuit

In a Fair Credit Reporting Act action based on allegedly inadequate safeguarding of consumer credit information, the dismissal of the complaint is reversed, where the statutory damages provision of the FCRA is not unconstitutionally vague and does not violate the Due Process Clause.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/09/2009
• Published 04/09/2009

Judges

• KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:, Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, and DUBINA and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Deepak Gupta, Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, DC, Joseph H. Aughtman, Wilson Daniel Miles, III, Scarlette M. Tuley, Beasley, Allen Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, Montgomery, AL, Jonathan H. Waller, Waller Law Office, P.C., Birmingham, AL, Alexander W. Jones, Jr., William S. Pritchard, III, Pritchard, McCall & Jones, LLC, Birmingham, AL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants Harris and Grimes., Scott R. McIntosh, Douglas N. Letter, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for the United States., Richard J. Rubin, Santa Fe, NM, for Amici Curiae National Consumer Law Center, National Association of Consumer Advocates, and U.S. Public Interest Research Group., Timothy Sandefur, Sacramento, CA, for Amicus Curiae Pacific Legal Foundation.


• For Appellees:
  
• Joshua D. Jones, Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C., Birmingham, AL, for Defendants-Appellees Mexican Specialty Foods, Inc., et al., William Perry Brandt, Heather S. Esau Zerger, Bryan Cave, LLP, Kansas City, MO, Dylan Cook Black, James William Gewin, Bradley, Arant, Boult, Cummings, LLP, Birmingham, AL, for Defendants-Appellees Rave Motion Pictures, et al.