Furniture Distributor Can’t Bench Federal Credit Privacy Claims

Warehouse Home Furnishing Distributors Inc. couldn’t convince a federal court to toss claims that it violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act by not correcting a consumer credit report.

Latisha Burns brought an FCRA action against Warehouse after her credit report allegedly listed an erroneous outstanding debt. Burns filed her suit in 2018 after credit reporting agencies TransUnion LLC and Equifax Inc. found that Warehouse failed or refused to update the credit report to correct the alleged debt.

Plaintiffs in consumer privacy suits can raise a threat of bad credit to continue with their claims in federal court, the U.S. District ...