Article III of the U.S. Constitution provides that federal
courts can decide "cases" and "controversies.”
The United States Supreme Court has interpreted that to mean that
only a plaintiff who has suffered an "injury in fact”
has "standing" to bring a case in federal court. The
Eleventh Circuit most recently addressed the issue of standing in
Cordoba v. DirecTV, LLC, Case No.
18-12077 (decided November 15, 2019).
In Cordoba, the plaintiff alleged that the defendants
violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) because he
received telephone solicitations from the defendants despite having
put his telephone number on a do-not-call list. The Eleventh
Circuit concluded that the individual plaintiff had standing
because an unsolicited telephone call was a sufficient intrusion on
the plaintiff to amount to an injury-in-fact.
