Spokeo Stops Customer From Suing Cable Company

A cable customer can’t sue the provider for retaining his personal information after he canceled service, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit held Sept. 8 (Braitberg v. Charter Commc’n Inc., 2016 BL 292673, 8th Cir., No. 14-1737, 9/8/16).

Alex Braitberg didn’t show any actual injury arising from the company’s retention of the information, the court said in an opinion by Judge Steven M. Colloton.

That deprived him of standing to sue under Article III of the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins, 84 ...