U.S. High Court Majority: Concrete Harm Needed To Seek Damages In FCRA Suit

Mealey's (June 25, 2021, 11:51 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Out of a class of more than 8,000 individuals who were awarded in excess of $40 million in a Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) lawsuit for a credit bureau’s incorrect placement of terrorist alerts on their credit reports, only those individuals with concrete harm have standing under Article III of the U.S. Constitution to seek damages as “an injury in law is not an injury in fact,” the U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 25 in a 5-4 opinion....

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