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The continued filing of lawsuits against employers under the FCRA underscores the need for in-house counsel, Human Resources, and Talent Acquisition to comply with the statute, especially...
Motions to dismiss federal-court actions based on a lack of Article III standing are succeeding more frequently—thanks to the Supreme Court's 2021 decision in TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez.
The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) is a federal law that governs employment-related background checks. Most lawsuits asserting federal claims proceed in federal court.
On April 4, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit joined the Ninth Circuit in holding that a plaintiff lacked Article III standing to prosecute her statutory claims under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) in federal court.
You have to have standing to sue. you have to show some harm to you, so how does somebody in louisiana suing somebody in austin who wants to get an abortion show specific concrete harm to them as opposed to anybody else. that's a problem. there are lots of sort of legal jurisdictional problems with this, but of course you have to wait for somebody to sue to actually be able to get some traction there. in the meantime, the attorney general is looking at how to challenge this law not only to overturn it in texas but to discourage other states from trying to do the same thing, hallie. >> pete wil...