The “Seven-year Rule” for adverse information
What is the “Seven-year Rule?” When reading the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), you see that it allows non-conviction criminal information to be reported for up to seven years. A […]
Court holds screening on independent contractors not subject to FCRA requirements
Excerpted from a Troutman Sanders LLP blog by Cindy Hanson, David Anthony, Alan Wingfield, Timothy St. George and Patrick Dillard. A court in the United States District Court for the […]
Confusing background check disclosures can get an employer in FCRA hot water!
Excerpted from a blog by Nadia Adams of Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP. On November 29, 2018, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision in Mitchell v. Winco […]
Can an outside investigation constitute a “consumer report” under FCRA?
Excerpted from a blog by Shelton Sterling Laney, III of Womble Bond Dickinson, LLP The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in the case of Rivera v Allstate Ins. Co., 907 […]