McGraw-edison Credit Corp. v. T. R. Axton, Sr. Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that the purpose clause “clearly requires judicial inquiry into the motives of the credit reporting agency, for only it ‘collects’ the information”
• “Congress meant to prevent intrusions into consumers’ private affairs when no legitimate transaction was actually imminent”
• the disjunctive phrase “clearly requires” inquiry into the CRA’s purpose in collecting the information and its expectation as to use
• “[I]f a credit bureau supplies information . . . but does not know the purpose for which the information is to be used, it may be reasonable to assume the agency expected the information to be used for a proper purpose.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).