We are pleased to announce that Troutman Sanders partner David Anthony will be a featured speaker at the American Conference Institute’s Data Breach & Privacy Litigation and Enforcement Conference at the Union League in Philadelphia March 17-19, 2016.
David will be a featured speaker on a panel entitled “Business to Business Claims: Vendor Lawsuits;
Troutman Sanders would like to share the attached favorable decision from the Eastern District of Virginia on behalf of its client, Portfolio Recovery Associates (“PRA”). The district court recently denied plaintiff’s motion for class certification in a case alleging that PRA violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by sending debt
The 2010 financial reform law, known as the Dodd-Frank Act, has led to a 14.5 percent cut in consumer revolving credit since its enactment, says the American Action Forum. Based on the AAF’s latest research, consumer credit access is taking a substantial hit as a result of the $30 billion in regulatory costs and 72
The Fifth Circuit recently adopted a presumption in favor of retaining federal jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act (“CAFA”) and placing the burden squarely on plaintiffs who seek to remand a case based on one of CAFA’s limited exceptions. Specifically, the Court held that “[i]f the applicability of an exception
I. Background
On February 3, 2016, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a bulletin warning companies that furnish information on consumers to consumer reporting agencies (CRAs) yet again of the need to have adequate policies and procedures. This bulletin makes clear that any company that supplies information to CRAs is in an area of
On February 2, the Fourth Circuit held that an arbitration agreement “may not flatly and categorically renounce the authority of the federal statutes to which it is and must remain subject.” Because the arbitration agreement at issue sought to “avoid state and federal law and to game the entire system,” the three-judge panel concluded that
A federal judge in the Southern District of New York halted another Fair Credit Reporting Act class action case in light of the Supreme Court’s upcoming ruling in Spokeo v. Robins. In Ernst v. DISH Network, U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield stayed a class action case brought by Dish Network LLC contract technicians alleging
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller stated in 2012, “[T]here are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked and those that will be.” Since then, many diverse companies (and even the federal government) have suffered this fate. Indeed, no company or entity appears immune to the potential reputational and financial risks that follow
On January 25, on a 23-15 vote, Virginia’s “ban the box” bill, SB335, passed the Virginia Senate. The proposal will now make its way to the Virginia House of Delegates for deliberation and potential approval.
SB 335 generally bars “state agencies” from inquiring into a job candidate’s criminal background before
On November 9, 2015, Terria Harris filed an Amended Complaint against Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. in a Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) background check class action lawsuit. In this complaint, she alleged that Home Depot violated the FCRA’s background check disclosure requirement because the disclosure she signed was allegedly “embedded with extraneous information.” As a