Equifax, Attorney General of Texas – Child Support Facing FCRA Class Action Over Report ‘Inaccuracies’ [UPDATE]
Last Updated on March 16, 2022
Jeffries, Individually And on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Equifax Information Services, Llc et al
Filed: October 16, 2018 ◆§ 4:18cv3829
A proposed class action claims the entities have incorrectly reported late child support payments and balances, even after a dispute had been submitted.
Texas
Case Updates
March 16, 2022 – Incorrect Child Support Payment Reporting Class Action Dismissed
The proposed class action detailed on this page was dismissed without prejudice on June 14, 2019.
According to the case docket, the suit was dismissed after arguments were heard on Equifax’s and Attorney General of Texas – Child Support’s motions to toss the lawsuit, which were ultimately granted by U.S. District Judge Keith P. Ellison. The plaintiff was given 20 days from June 14, 2019 to replead the lawsuit yet did not do so, the docket shows.
Equifax Information Services and the Attorney General of Texas – Child Support are the defendants in a proposed class action lawsuit that charges the entities have incorrectly reported late child support payments and balances and continued to report such even after a dispute had been submitted.
The plaintiff alleges the Attorney General of Texas – Child Support furnished information that was inaccurate for “multiple reasons,” including, the suit says, uneven reporting of his account among the credit bureaus that denoted different balances and incorrect late payment notations. The man claims that he submitted a dispute concerning these items with Equifax in April 2018.
The lawsuit alleges that upon receipt of the plaintiff’s dispute, the Attorney General “failed to conduct a reasonable investigation and continued to report false and inaccurate adverse information,” as well as failed to mark the man’s account as disputed. Moreover, despite the plaintiff’s dispute, Equifax, for its part, “did not evaluate or consider any of the information, claims, or evidence,” nor attempt to verify whether the information on the man’s account was inaccurate.
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