Vallejos v Commissioner of Registration
The hearing on Vallejos' case began on 22 August 2011, and stretched out until the 24th. David Pannick represented the respondent, the Commissioner of Registration. During the hearing, the courtroom was packed to overflowing with lawyers, journalists, and other members of the public, who took up not just the seats in the public gallery, but also those for defendants and jury members (the latter being unoccupied as the case at hand was not a jury trial but a judicial review). Another hundred people watched the proceedings on a large-screen television in the lobby, while protestors both supporting and opposing Vallejos' case faced off outside the building without incident.
Driver's Privacy Protection Act
United States Court of Appeals,Eleventh Circuit.James KEHOE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. FIDELITY FEDERAL BANK & TRUST, Defendant-Appellee. No. 04-13306, writ denied by SCOTUS in 2006, is considered the "grandfather" of all DPPA litigation. A decision involving the meaning of a comma within the statutory language, permitting the option of actual damages, or liquidated damages of $2500.00 per violation, citing the comma as providing the option. As the Kehoe case was being litigated to various lower levels of court for many years, unbeknownst to Attorney Joseph H. Malley,(Law Offices of Joseph H. Malley, PC, Dallas Texas) he had begun to research the unauthorized access to a client's motor vehicle records in 2004, requesting open records request to the Texas DMV and about 35 other state DMVs. Within days of the kehoe ruling by SCOTUS, now knowing he had SCOTUS precedent Attorney Malley began filing Driver Privacy Protection Act ("DPPA") class actions, a law related to the unauthorized access to DMV records and permitted statutory damages for privacy violations, IE., $2500.00 damage award "per person-per violation, (per company)". Initially filing federal class actions against 3-400+ companies starting in 2006, and continuing to date: