Christina Lamoureux

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Christina Lamoureux is an associate in the Litigation Practice in the Washington DC office. She focuses her practice on a variety of complex commercial matters, including class actions and intellectual property disputes.

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Can’t Have it Both Ways: Court Strikes Down Defamation Claims After Plaintiff Says Furnishers Weren’t Furnishing Information (But Lets FCRA Claims Through on Permissible Purpose Grounds)

By Christina Lamoureux on June 16, 2020

Posted in FCRA

A recent decision from the Western District of Kentucky wound its way through a maze of permissible purposes and reasonable beliefs, with a detour into defamation claims, ultimately striking half of plaintiff’s claims. In Durbin v. Americredit Fin. Servs., No. 1:19-CV-00184-GNS, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 101554 (W.D. Ky. June 9, 2020), the court found…

We Need a “Little” More Information: Court Punts Permissible Purpose Question to the Jury

By Christina Lamoureux on June 2, 2020

Posted in FCRA

Hotly contested facts in a recent case from New Jersey gave rise to some new questions about whether a company could have had a permissible purpose under the FCRA for a credit report pull if the consumer’s written consent for the pull was (allegedly) forged. While the court ultimately sent those questions to the jury,…

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Christina Lamoureux

Can’t Have it Both Ways: Court Strikes Down Defamation Claims After Plaintiff Says Furnishers Weren’t Furnishing Information (But Lets FCRA Claims Through on Permissible Purpose Grounds)

We Need a “Little” More Information: Court Punts Permissible Purpose Question to the Jury

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