{"id":1951829,"date":"2023-06-20T12:16:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T16:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-to-decide-if-us-can-be-sued-over-incorrect-credit-report\/"},"modified":"2023-06-20T12:18:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T16:18:34","slug":"supreme-court-to-decide-if-us-can-be-sued-over-incorrect-credit-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-to-decide-if-us-can-be-sued-over-incorrect-credit-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court to rule on US liability for inaccurate credit reports."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsupreme-court-to-decide-if-us-can-be-sued-over-incorrect-credit-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1951829&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Supreme Court to Consider Lawsuit Over Credit Report Errors<\/h2>\n<p>The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a lawsuit that raises the question of whether the federal government waived its legal immunity for money damages related to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/n-y-gov-cuomo-doubles-down-on-nursing-home-covid-orders\/\" title=\"N.Y. Gov. Cuomo doubles down on nursing home COVID orders\">credit report<\/a> errors. The case involves Reginald Kirtz, a Pennsylvania man, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The justices will review a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, which allowed Kirtz to sue the USDA for inaccurately stating on his credit report that his Rural Housing Service loans were overdue.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Kirtz has filed a lawsuit against the USDA and a Pennsylvania-based lender, alleging that his loans were fully repaid but the lenders continued to report them as overdue. This incorrect information was then passed on to the credit reporting agency TransUnion, resulting in damage to Kirtz&#8217;s creditworthiness. He is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bob-dylan-sued-for-allegedly-grooming-sexually-abusing-12-year-old-girl-in-the-1960s\/\" title=\"Bob Dylan Sued For Allegedly Grooming, Sexually Abusing 12-Year-Old Girl In The 1960s\">seeking unspecified damages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Government&#8217;s Legal Immunity<\/h3>\n<p>The 3rd Circuit determined that Congress waived the government&#8217;s legal immunity when it made amendments to the Fair Credit Reporting Act in 1996, imposing new requirements on lenders.<\/p>\n<p>In response to Kirtz&#8217;s appeal, the USDA expressed concerns about the potential liability the government could face if the appeals court&#8217;s interpretation of the FCRA is upheld. Lawyers for the Biden administration argued that waivers of sovereign immunity should be unequivocal and unambiguous, citing precedents set by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for updates on this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newsom-hit-with-major-settlement-over-covid-lockdowns-on-churches\/\" title=\"Newsom Hit With Major Settlement Over COVID Lockdowns on Churches\">significant case<\/a> that could have implications for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-to-decide-if-us-can-be-sued-over-incorrect-credit-report\/\" title=\"Supreme Court to rule on US liability for inaccurate credit reports.\">credit reporting procedures<\/a> and government accountability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court will review a case between a Pennsylvania man and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, concerning whether the federal government waived its legal immunity for money damages related to credit report errors. This comes after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit ruling in favor of Reginald Kirtz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1951830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[4733,6178,7258,13341,4564,6610,4730],"class_list":["post-1951829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-court","tag-credit","tag-inaccurate","tag-liability","tag-reports","tag-rule","tag-supreme"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1951830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}