Sprint Communications Co. v. APCC Services, Inc.
United States Supreme Court
554 U.S. 269 (2008)
Relevant factsFree
Payphone operators assigned their claims against long-distance carriers (defendants) to aggregators (plaintiffs), who agreed to sue on the operators' behalf and remit all proceeds back to them in exchange for a fee; the carriers argued the aggregators lacked standing since they retained no ultimate interest in the litigation's proceeds, but the district court and court of appeals both found standing existed.
IssueFree
Whether a person who is an assignee for collection purposes only has standing to bring an action on an assigned legal claim for money.