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Last month, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit decided a set of consolidated appeals in Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) actions brought by consumers against a credit reporting agency.  The consumers all alleged that a notation in their credit reports was misleading and inaccurate under the FCRA, which requires credit reporting…

CPW’s Kristin Bryan, a 2022 Law360 Privacy & Cybersecurity MVP as well as a featured subject matter expert for LexisNexis, Jesse Taylor and Shing Tse teamed up to co-author a chapter of the Lexis Practical Guidance titled “Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Breach Litigation: Key Laws and Considerations”. In this practice…

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No Injury = No Article III Standing in Data Breach Class Action

Jury Finds Credit Reporting Agency Was “Reasonable”…

Thanks are owed to SPB summer associate Gabby Martin for her contributions to this article.

Last month, a Florida federal jury found in favor of a credit reporting agency (“CRA”) in a trial centering on whether the CRA took “reasonable” steps to assure the accuracy of a consumer’s credit report after a consumer dispute.  The…

Last week, a California federal court held that a plaintiff lacked Article III standing to bring a putative class action in federal court for violations of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (“FACTA”) amendments to the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”), 15 U.S.C. § 1681 et. seq. As a result, the case was remanded back to the California state court where the plaintiff chose to file his complaint.

In Kamel v. Hibbett, Inc., No. 8:22-cv-01096-RGK-E, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 130753 (C.D. Cal. July 22, 2022), the plaintiff alleged that he made a purchase with his credit card at one of the defendants’ stores and received a receipt which contained ten digits of his credit card number. …

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This week, a federal court rejected an attempt in litigation under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) to assert claims against not only against Credit Reporting Agencies (“CRAs”) but also the Chief Executive Officers (“CEOs”) of the CRAs (“CEO Defendants”),  concerning claims that they failed to respond to communications or remove an errant account from…