Equifax Denied Bid To See Settlement Agreements In FCRA Suit

Mealey's (October 22, 2021, 11:22 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A federal magistrate judge in Illinois on Oct. 21 denied a credit report agency’s (CRA’s) motion to compel a borrower to disclose the terms of settlement agreements he reached with other CRAs stemming from their erroneous file-mixing of the borrower’s credit history on his credit report, ruling that the one-satisfaction rule does not apply to Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) cases....