USDA To High Court: FCRA Does Not Waive Government’s Sovereign Immunity

(August 16, 2023, 1:05 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A waiver of sovereign immunity requires “clear statutory language,” and the general remedial provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) do not contain such a waiver, the U.S. Department of Agriculture tells the U.S. Supreme Court in an Aug. 15 petitioner brief challenging a Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling allowing a borrower to sue the department for allegedly misreporting that he was past due in his mortgage loan payments....