Two job applicants who were denied employment based on background reports that falsely indicated they were criminals asked a Virginia federal judge Monday to certify their class action lawsuit against CoreLogic Inc. and National Background Data LLC, saying the companies’ alleged violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act made it impossible for millions of job seekers to receive a fair shake from hiring organizations.
Plaintiffs Tyrone Henderson and James O. Hines Jr. argue in the Jan. 6 motion that their proposed class action lawsuit satisfies the Rule 23 standards for certification of three separate classes, as the key issue in the case is whether or not the company is bound by the rules of the FCRA.
Both Hines and Henderson were on the cusp of obtaining job offers, they say, until criminal background checks provided by CoreLogic to their prospective employer included allegedly faulty evidence of convictions, including one designation as a sexual predator. Had the company linked its data to Social Security numbers, the two argue that there would have been no issue. More importantly, both say they needed to either talk to the court in question or request a copy of their background report in writing from CoreLogic.
That does not jibe with the rules of the FCRA, which says that companies must notify consumers when they furnish a background report that contains information that may negatively impact their effort to get hired. CoreLogic alleges that since it does not provide the data directly to employers, but instead works with resellers including Verifications Inc. and ADP Screening, it is not bound by these laws.
Since the parties have already gone through partial discovery, the class action lawyer for the pair alleges that information has come up that belie this. While there is a clause protecting data providers who “maintain strict procedures designed to insure that [when public record information] is reported it is complete and up to date[,]” this should not apply to CoreLogic because the company’s own records indicate that the data they obtain is incomplete as it does not include Social Security numbers.
As the motion notes, “This omission is huge. There is no single identifier that is more important in narrowing and matching a search to a specific consumer. Defendant acknowledges this fact—that omission of SSN makes a correct match less likely.” To act without this information, the company should have provided a notice, and in fact there is a draft copy of such a notice for the resellers including ADP and Verifications, according to the motion.
Instead, while saying that the company is protected by the “strict procedures” standard of the FCRA, it includes contract language for resellers that notes its criminal background checks “do not comply with [California state statutes similar to the FCRA] for use in employment screening,” the motion states.
Henderson and Hines are requesting certification for three putative classes: a broad national class, and two sub-classes limited to reports sold to Verifications and to ADP. According to the motion, discovery has revealed that the national class would contain as many as 10 million consumers.
The plaintiffs are represented by Leonard A. Bennett of Consumer Litigation Associates PC.
The False Employment Records Class Action Lawsuit is Tyrone Henderson et al. v. CoreLogic Inc., et al., Case No. 12-cv-00097, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia.
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14 thoughts onJob Applicants Want False Background Check Class Action Certified
I was being systemically exterminated bc of both companies illegal activities that Hines was supposed to fix. Lying is more important than complying with laws that they make billions off of. If anyone paid this amount of money to conduct accurate background reports, why the hell don’t they just do it right? What is the frigging problem that they just lie about everything they are supposed to be getting it right. Right to them is wrong I guess. I’ve never encountered any company like these 2 operate. They apologize for any inconvenience it may have caused & then retaliate against me because I didn’t receive anything about Hines until nearly 2020 when I started to be treated for the last underlying cause of being systemically exterminated & brain damaged & disabled from 7-8 years of vaccine preventable incurable conditions subjected to for much too long. Thus, desperation was felt by me with regard to them meaning they violated every law they could while the judge allowed it to occur instead of giving me a needed medical leave of absence thanks to the response of immune system response for functional cure destroyed by them & her biased judicial activities that seemed to have the judge plus 2 corporations violating my inalieble, earned rights and privileges thereto appertaining, and ADA laws of retaliation against a disabled brain damaged physiologist, with coercion to sign their dismissal or they would waive their moral rights as being binding when in fact, according to contract laws of offer & acceptance did not agree once read & needed an attorney present to be binding anyway. Who brings their attorney with them to their first day of work? Nobody does. So they know that the illegal contract was not binding & responding to this has been ignored & was unagreed to in email writing saved for HR at 24-7 Intouch Ascenda USA Inc who illegally reacted to my received Federal Court Notice about Hines on 11/1/2019 & then abused their power by taking over the false hiring of me designed to block my testimony with DFS by interfering with this because my witness was killed in this process & suffered without any visitors alowed to cover him up pre maturely. This is just more egregious activities proving they don’t care nor do they follow the laws they have been made to comply with in this case of 75,400 others similarly situated. I just happened to be damaged much more than they were & it was known by ADP Verifications bc they probably knew more about my brain/blood stream than I did bc I was lied to about everything when told Im fine. I can just go out into the community while measuring a DNA viral load of 157 million iu/ml on December 5, 2019. Started treatment in February of 2020 meaning they knew that I was in no condition to be left alone & unrepresented in a Federal Court of Law which is obviously a public place. Thus, truth about me being damaged was ignored over the past 23-25 years now without end in sight. I’ve been exploited for this long & idk what they expect me to do that they have destroyed my ability to work. They use illegal financial harms just like it says with regard defining data harms. Data harms are in serious need of being regulated bc they probably killed a bunch of people who didn’t know they were being unknowingly libeled and stalked to near death like I was. If 10 million were similarly libeled, & it killed my neighbor & nearly myself numerous times, resulting in cognitive disabilities that corporations will exploit as if they think this is legal. It is not of course & we need to stop this train wreck of ignoring FCRA, ADA, 7th Amendment to Bill of Rights, libel laws & stalking laws in every state its illegal. Libel is illegal in FL. I haven’t had time to get DFS involved yet due to ethics violations of underwriting by defamation. Threats to continue the illegal activities were made including being charged with harassment for trying to understand liabilities and damages they chose to confuse, lie, abuse repeatedly, discriminate against males due to metoo bc of those in power abused it no matter the gender bc I am a male who was illegally stalked & targeted by females in 2000-2003 and didn’t end this abuse until the judge slipped in an unknown about decision until much later while my good health was reversed to bakeractings meaning I was disabled from being unknowingly libeled and stalked to near death from 2000-2003 through 2015 & in the 2010s I was supposed to be killed like the guy they used to terminate & revoke. He leaked: “your being specifically targeted & wanted by law enforcement in 2011 after 4-5 yrs of it already in 2000/2003-2009 resulting massive amounts of damages that took lives. Lives are the most egregious of all activities done to me & by their control & manipulations. Exploiting this was done in a public place with massive amounts of retaliations against me over decades of deadly times survived & recovering from beginning in 2020 when I was left alone & unrepresented in another court case just like 2009-2019 was while they captured me incessantly in 2013 especially when asked: “What is your first name?THEN, what is your last name?” And again, all hell broke loose just like it did on September 1, 2021 responding to my ability to cure myself from an incurable and vaccine preventable condition. Tell me I wasn’t being systemically exterminated. I wish I was but it is not the case. I’ve had many people witness bouts of unconsciousness lasting 30 minutes to 72 hours. Blackouts, mild encephalitis (ME), CFS, focal brain atrophy of hippocampus and bilateral hemispheric cerebellar atrophy measured in August of 2025 and it’s been 5 years of treating the underlying condition. This means that I’ve had time to recover physiologically & there is still brain damaging conditions measured after 5 years of treatment. It either didn’t heal at all or was worse & it remains after being treated. What’s more: it ain’t from age either. It’s from something else negatively affecting these emotional numbing focal atrophy of 2 parts that subserve memories & allow spatial awareness. This means my balance & ability to function coordinated was compromised & by having me be forever abused at work, they attempted to cause more harms by working. This means that I have to find answers to truths by myself which is one of my stronger characteristics according to research on this subject. I am not harmful to children or others as much as it is wanted to be the case by these ignorant & abused themselves by both companies who’ve abused their power tyrrannically in the country that fled that crap long ago making our American ideals become the world’s repeating Independences. And they knew this stuff would occur & made our first laws to end it then and in the future when power was abused like it’s doing now & for the past 23-25 years. I will not stop either with this. I am not a public figure either nor will I allow anyone to be exploited by waiving moral rights either. For either company to be wanting this is psychopathic. And psychopaths are usually removed from society of course they are especially when they cannot afford the damages they’ve caused inconveniently. Ugh. Convenience seems to be more important than compliances.