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Fair Credit defendant must comply with discovery (access required)

February 17, 2020 Comments Off on Fair Credit defendant must comply with discovery (access required)

Where jurisdictional discovery in a class action under the Fair Credit Reporting Act was previously allowed, a consumer reporting agency’s objections were overruled, its efforts to narrow the scope of the requests were denied and it was ordered to comply ...

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Judge rejects broad discovery objections in FCRA case (access required)

January 9, 2020 Comments Off on Judge rejects broad discovery objections in FCRA case (access required)

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Overruling general objections and citing a defendant’s ‘strained and untenable’ view of a jurisdiction issue, a federal judge ordered expansive discovery for a pair of would-be class action plaintiffs seeking penalties for alleged background check violations. The judge’s opinion will ...

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NAACP can’t hold county responsible for school policies (access required)

December 4, 2019 Comments Off on NAACP can’t hold county responsible for school policies (access required)

Where a chapter of the NAACP sued Hanover County and its School Board claiming the alleged veneration of the Confederacy in schools deprives African American students of an equal opportunity to an education, Hanover County was dismissed as a defendant ...

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Plaintiffs given opportunity to avoid transfer of case (access required)

December 4, 2019 Comments Off on Plaintiffs given opportunity to avoid transfer of case (access required)

Where buyers agreed to an Indiana forum-selection clause when they purchased a new recreational vehicle, and the manufacturer was unable to repair several defects, they were granted a hearing to demonstrate that the clause should not be enforced because it ...

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Jury to decide if officer violated plaintiff’s constitutional rights (access required)

November 20, 2019 Comments Off on Jury to decide if officer violated plaintiff’s constitutional rights (access required)

Where the plaintiff was arrested after a confrontation in a Longwood University dormitory as a result of an allegedly misleading affidavit submitted by a university police officer, a jury will decide if the officer made material misrepresentations or omissions in ...

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