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U.S. Supreme Court Holds Consumers Can Sue the Government for Violating the FCRA

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP on 2/27/2024

On February 8, 2024, the United States Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Department of Agricultural Rural Development Rural Housing Service v. Kirtz by holding that a consumer may sue the government under the Fair...more

Supreme Court: Government Agencies Can Be Liable Under FCRA for Credit Reporting Errors

Fox Rothschild LLP on 2/14/2024

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that federal government agencies can be held liable under the Fair Credit Reporting Act when they fail to investigate or correct inaccurate information furnished to credit reporting agencies. ...more

Supreme Court Holds Government Agencies are Not Immune from FCRA Liability

Troutman Pepper on 2/12/2024

On February 8, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Department of Agriculture Rural Development Rural Housing Service (USDA) v. Kirtz, holding that the Fair Credit Reporting Act’s (FCRA) clear statutory text...more

Homeowner Files Cert Petition Over Whether an HOA Assessment Qualifies as a “Credit Transaction” under the FCRA

Troutman Pepper on 8/22/2023

The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to decide whether a homeowner association (HOA) assessment constitutes a “credit transaction” under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), which would open up an inquiry to the fundamental...more

Relief For The Unharmed: Supreme Court Considers Whether Article III & Rule 23 Permit Certification Where Most Class Members Are...

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Class Dismissed on 4/9/2021

The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly declined to resolve a question that has sharply divided the Circuits: whether a class may be certified even though it contains uninjured members. See e.g., Tyson Foods, Inc. v....more

Ninth Circuit Holds That Consumer Alleging FCRA Claim against Spokeo Sufficiently Pled a Concrete Harm to Confer Article III...

Blank Rome LLP on 8/17/2017

Action Item: On remand from the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that a consumer’s allegations that the operator of a website reported inaccurate information about him...more

U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Spokeo v. Robins case will make waves in consumer class actions –one way or another

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 1/8/2016

Back in early November of last year, Spokeo, Inc. (Spokeo) argued before the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to overturn a February 2014 ruling from the Ninth Circuit that revived the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) lawsuit filed...more

CFPB Urges SCOTUS: Hands Off That FCRA Holding

MoFo Reenforcement on 4/4/2015

Time to dust off those federal jurisdiction hornbooks! The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Office of the Solicitor General (collectively, “the government”) submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in...more

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