Salient insights on key enforcement and legal trends pertaining to the consumer financial services sector
In a 6-3 decision issued today, the Supreme Court ruled that defendants cannot rely on a strategic offer of judgment to the named plaintiff to moot the claims of the putative class.
After an unfavorable Ninth Circuit decision, U.S. Navy contractor Campbell-Ewald asked the high court to consider, inter alia, whether defendants can strategically…
On October 1, 2015, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania issued a decision in Ramos v. Genesis Healthcare, LLC, upholding an employer’s use of a credit report in connection with a decision to not hire an applicant and further held that the employer did not fail to give the applicant…
On August 10, 2015, the Seventh Circuit upheld a lower court’s dismissal of a proposed class action accusing Advocate Health and Hospitals Corp., of violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act by failing to safe keep health data stolen from its offices, saying the hospital isn’t a consumer reporting agency.
The FCRA defines a credit reporting…
