10 Best Blog Posts: Court Holds LinkedIn Reference Searches Are Not ‘Consumer Reports’ Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act
Virginia Beach associate David Gettings, Richmond associate Tim St. George and Richmond partner David Anthony’s Consumer Financial Services Law Monitor blog article – “ Court Holds LinkedIn Reference Searches are Not ‘Consumer Reports’ Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act” – was listed on April 22 as one of Real Lawyers Have Blogs’ 10 best blog posts and referenced in an April 24 Law.com article.
“In Sweet v. LinkedIn Corporation, a number of job applicants sued the social networking service for alleged violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act based on LinkedIn’s ‘Reference Search’ function,” the authors state in their opening paragraph. “The Court dismissed the complaint at the pleadings stage, holding that the reports were not ‘consumer reports’ and that LinkedIn was not a ‘consumer reporting agency.’”