4th Circuit Affirms Judgment Against Drivers In 2 DPPA Lawsuits

Mealey's (June 22, 2022, 8:56 AM EDT) -- RICHMOND, Va. — The appellants in two lawsuits brought under the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act (DPPA) were properly disposed of by a trial court, a Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held June 3, finding that the two groups of drivers did not properly allege that a collection of personal injury lawyers who obtained their personally identifiable information (PII) from accident reports for the purpose of soliciting business did so from motor vehicle records, per the statute....