The class suing Bucks County over its searchable database of former inmates won’t be able to recover compensatory damages, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be able to seek punitive damages, a federal appeals court has ruled in a case that appeared to address an issue of first impression for the circuit.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Thursday in Taha v. County of Bucks that the plaintiffs could proceed with their claims under the Pennsylvania Criminal History Record Information Act, despite challenges from the county that sovereign immunity barred the claims and plaintiffs were not entitled to recover compensatory damages. The precedential decision affirmed a ruling from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, which had allowed the case to proceed.
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