In 5-4 Decision, SC strips Congress of powers to award damages to victims of corporate law breaking

[Never Made it to Graceland]

THOMAS joins dissent.

This won't get as much attention as the yellow avs creaming themselves because a cheerleader was allowed to say f*** on Snapchat, but this is a lot broader and essentially invents new restrictions to protect corporations from consequences for actions against their consumers: in this case, people who who didn't even voluntarily use their services. The notion of "material harm" is now a barrier to damages, as if that has ever been a barometer in this country before.

Let's stop pretending this Court is interested in constitutionality.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/supreme-court-by-5-4-vote-pares-back-class-action-suits-11624632441

[politicallefty]

Kavanaugh definitely seems to be authoring some of the worst decisions this term. And simple math would dictated that this decision would've gone the other way a year ago.

[WindowPhil]

What counts as concrete harm?

[brucejoel99]

Substantively, it could've always been worse, in that the majority could've always chosen to go past standing. Thank god that they didn't, though, because if they'd actually chosen to accept TransUnion's laughable typicality argument, then that could've basically marked the end for all class-actions. Don't get me wrong: this ruling will still have a significant impact in terms of standing relating to the statutory harms of consumers, but at least it won't be hurting all class-action standing.

[KaiserDave]

The Federalist Society and its consequences....