United States Third Circuit

In plaintiff's suit against Trans Union pursuant to the Fair Credit Reporting Act for failing to correct the problems with plaintiff's credit report or respond satisfactorily to her inquiries, district court's judgment is affirmed where: 1) defendant remains responsible for the accuracy in its reports under the FCRA as Congress clearly intended to ensure that credit reporting agencies exercise care when deciding to associate information with a given consumer, and the record clearly supports the jury's determination that defendant did not exercise sufficient care here; 2) district court did not err in denying defendant's motion for judgment as a matter of law on plaintiff's claims under 15 U.S.C section 1681; 3) district court's entry of judgment for $100,000 in punitive damages is affirmed as it clearly had the authority to enter the conditional remittitur and plaintiff's attempt to avoid the Supreme Court's decision in Donovan is meritless; 4) district court's denial of defendant's motion to remit the compensatory damage award is affirmed; and 5) district court's remitted punitive damages award of $100,000 is affirmed.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/11/2010
• Decided 08/13/2010
• Published 08/13/2010

Judges

• McKEE

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James A. Francis, Mark E. Kogan