Galvez-Vasquez v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• examining standing for claim under section of FDCPA prohibiting the use of false or misleading representations by debt collectors
• \we are not aware of any tort that makes a person liable for wasting another's time\
• “A plaintiff can sue for damages if the risk materializes or causes a separate injury-in-fact, such as emotional distress.”
• “Remember: A plaintiff always must be able to point to a concrete injury to bring suit... [a]nd if a risk hasn’t materialized, the plaintiff hasn’t yet been harmed.”
• focus is not on “level of harm” but whether harm “is similar in kind to a type of harm that No. 21-6189 Ward v. NPAS, Inc. Page 6 the common law has recognized as actionable”
• “[I]f a risk hasn’t materialized, the plaintiff hasn’t yet been injured.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).