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An Ohio plaintiff’s claim under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) was thrown away because he couldn’t show that the report caused him an injury or that the background screening company failed to maintain reasonable procedures to ensure accuracy. Thomas Black filed…
A putative Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) class action, filed Feb. 13 in the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court in Orange County, Fla., has been removed by Naples Hotel Group LLC. The lawsuit alleges that Naples “improperly obtained and used consumer reports about…
California’s Assembly Bill 1859 (AB 1859) aims to impose substantial new security obligations on consumer credit reporting agencies and companies that contract with such agencies. Under the new law, agencies and their contractors would be “required to expediently…
In Lewis v. Southwest Airlines, the plaintiff asserted classwide and “willful” violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act’s disclosure requirement and corresponding violations of California’s fair credit reporting act. The court reasoned that…
The Ninth Circuit has ruled that the plaintiff in Bassett v. ABM Parking Services, Inc., et al., Case No. 2:16-CV-00947 (9th Cir. 1018) failed to allege a concrete injury-in-fact sufficient for Article III standing in a suit alleging a violation of the Fair Credit…
Altareek Grice has alleged in a class action lawsuit against Pepsi that the company obtained a consumer report from him without his knowledge or permission when he applied for a job at a bottling plant. He claims Pepsi failed to meet Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)…
Blumenthal, Nordrehaug and Bhowmik filed a proposed class action complaint against Marriott Ownership Resorts, Inc., for allegedly failing to provide California employees with the legally required thirty-minute uninterrupted meal periods after five hours of work. The…
In August, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals claimed that a plaintiff who alleges extraneous information in a background check disclosure form lacks the necessary Article III standing to maintain a lawsuit. Cory Groshek submitted 562 applications, seeking…
Walmart is facing a class action lawsuit alleging that the company violates the Fair Credit Reporting Act by using unauthorized background checks. The lead plaintiff in the case argues that the business failed to provide adequate notice of the consumer report and did…
When Postmates failed to hire potential candidates based on background checks, the applicants argued the business was in violation of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act. The plaintiffs claim the company did not provide a copy of background check results or the…