SC Data Center Inc. prevailed in a suit alleging it violated federal law by withdrawing a job offer after a background report revealed the applicant hadn’t disclosed felony convictions, as the Eighth Circuit found she wasn’t harmed by the technical violation.
Ria Schumacher didn’t show she suffered a concrete injury as a result of SC Data’s failure to show her a copy of the report before withdrawing its offer, a violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit said.
The company withdrew the offer based on the nondisclosure and wouldn’t have given ...
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