Brian Wantz v. Experian Information Solutions

How courts have described this case

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• testimony that the plaintiff was “humiliated and embarrassed,” and that dealing with credit reporting agencies was “mentally and emotionally distressful,” held insufficient to establish actual damages
• “In short, where there is no evidence of disclosure to a third party, the plaintiff cannot establish the existence of a consumer report.”
• abrogated on other grounds by Safeco Ins. Co. of America v. Burr, 551 U.S. 47, 56 n.8 (2007)
• without evidence that the defendant “disclosed incorrect information,” the plaintiff cannot prove a violation of the FCRA’s reinvestigation requirement
• at summary judgment, finding insufficient evidence of emotional- distress damages where there was “no evidence that Experian disclosed [plaintiff’s] credit information to a third party”
• “In the absence of evidence that Experian disclosed incorrect information about the Virginia judgment to a third party, Wantz cannot even show that it violated the Act’s reinvestigation requirement … .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).