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Constitutional Law Keyed to Choper
Sprint Communications Co. v. APCC Services, Inc.
Citation:
554 U.S. 269 (2008)Facts
Payphone operators are entitled by federal law to compensation from long-distance carriers for certain calls made from their payphones. Due to difficulties in collecting these payments, many payphone operators assigned their claims to aggregator companies like APCC Services, which specialize in pursuing such claims. Under these arrangements, APCC received the legal right to sue on behalf of the payphone operators but agreed to remit all proceeds back to them, retaining only a fee for their services. Sprint Communications and other long-distance carriers allegedly failed to make proper payments to the payphone operators. When APCC filed suit to collect these payments, Sprint challenged APCC’s standing to bring the lawsuit since APCC would not personally benefit from any recovery.
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