Tag Archives: FCRA

Background Check Disclosures with State Law Information Are Illegal, Ninth Circuit Declares in Class Action Case

By Todd Lebowitz on February 1, 2019 Posted in FCRA

Check your background check disclosure forms. Now. The Ninth Circuit has now declared that background check disclosure forms that include state law disclosures are illegal. Gilberg v. California Check Cashing Stores, LLC, Case No. 17-16263 (9th Cir. Jan. 29, 2019). Read more.… Continue Reading

Background Check Lawsuits: If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Another

By Pat Muldowney on July 15, 2014 Posted in Background Checks, Retail

As we previously have written, employer use of criminal records and background checks with respect to applicants and employees has been the subject of challenge on the grounds that such checks tend to discriminate against African-American, Hispanic, and male applicants. Indeed, on July 1, a federal court in New York certified a class of unsuccessful … Continue Reading