United States Fifth Circuit

Inaccurate listings in a credit bureau report may result in actual damages, but where the evidence shows that the credit grantor relied on another credit bureau, no reasonable jury could find actual damages for negligent noncompliance with 15 USC 1681-1681u.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/21/2001
• Published 03/21/2001

Judges

• DeMOSS, Circuit Judge:, Before GARWOOD, DeMOSS and PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael Talmadge Lewis (argued), Pauline Shuler Lewis, Christopher Ethan Kittell, Lewis & Lewis, Clarksdale, MS, for Cousin., Mark E. Kogan (argued), Bruce S. Luckman, Marion, Satzberg, Trichon, Kogan & Wertheimer, Philadelphia, PA, for Trans Union Corp., Deborah M. Zuckerman, Stacy Jane Canan, AARP Foundation, Washington, DC, for American Ass'n of Retired Persons., James B. Fishman, Fishman, Neil & Armentrout, LLP, New York City, for American Ass'n of Retired Persons, National Ass'n of Consumer Advocates, The National Consumer Law Center and U.S. Public Interest Research Group, Amicus Curiae.