On April 15, 2019, a California Court of Appeal affirmed summary judgment for the employer in a class action alleging class-wide violations of the hyper-technical provisions of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).1 Following just shortly after the Ninth Circuit’s pro-employee opinion in a similar case, Gilberg v. California Check Cashing Stores, the court’s opinion is a welcome development for embattled employers in California.
New CFPB Rule Removes Medical Bills from Credit Reports
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has finalized a rule that removes medical debt from consumer credit...
