Today, in a unanimous opinion, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that agencies of the federal government can be sued by individual consumers for violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”), 15 U.S.C. § 1681, et seq. The decision is significant in that it paves the way for more FCRA
Earlier this month, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the “CFPB”) announced that it had issued a request for information (“RFI”) seeking public comment on “companies that track and collect information on people’s personal lives. In issuing this new Request for Information, the CFPB wants to understand the full scope and breadth of data brokers and their business practices, their impact on the daily lives of consumers, and whether they are all playing by the same rules.” The deadline for submitting comments in response to the RFI is June 13, 2023.
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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
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. Continue Reading California Federal Court Grants Plaintiff’s Motion to Remand FACTA Class Action to State Court
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