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A California federal judge on Monday said he would approve a McDonald’s operator’s $950,000 deal to end claims that it violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act by running credit checks on over 2,500 job applicants without making the disclosures required by…
New Jersey’s Valley National Bank is facing a putative class action in federal court after violating the federal fair credit reporting law when the company obtained consumer reports on job applicants without first informing the candidates. The suits seek damages…
Neiman Marcus was found guilty of violating the Illinois Employee Credit Privacy Act when a conditional offer of employment for an entry level sales associate was rescinded after the store ran a credit check that revealed judgments against her. The store argued for…
On October 5, 2016, two district courts came to opposite conclusions on whether putative class action plaintiffs had standing to bring claims based on prospective employers’ failure to comply with Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) disclosure requirements. In Moody v….
A California federal judge recently dismissed a class action in which Bobby Dutta alleged State Farm did not provide him an opportunity to dispute findings on his credit report before denying him employment as an agent. The plaintiff could not prove that any harm had…
A woman who recently lost a JPMorgan Chase Bank NA job offer due to the FBI’s fingerprint background check service also lost the Fair Credit Reporting Act class action because she failed to genuinely demonstrate the claim. The bank’s request was granted…
A class of job seekers and background check company S2Verify must go back to the drawing board over their proposed $1 million settlement to close a Fair Credit Reporting Act case because it is “overbroad,” a California federal judge said Monday. S2Verify, which…
Background screening company LexisNexis recently was required to pay $375,000 in damages when a client was bought out by another company who used its services to screen current employees to determine hiring eligibility. LexisNexis failed to use the middle name of an…
After the Supreme Court vacated and remanded the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins, the parties again appeared before the lower court, arguing over whether a purely technical violation of the FCRA is sufficient to satisfy the concreteness requirement…
In Long v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation, the named plaintiffs applied for positions as bus operators with the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA). SEPTA allegedly extended each of the plaintiffs a conditional offer of employment,…