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· 6/20/2017

State of Maine v. Andrew L. Seamon

Citations

  • 2017 ME 123
  • 165 A.3d 342
  • 2017 WL 2644392
  • 2017 Me. LEXIS 128

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding that Thompson Reuters was not acting as a “consumer reporting agency” by furnishing criminal background information
  • finding that an entity must have the specific intent to provide a “consumer report”
  • characterizing consumer reporting agencies as entities that “sell consumer reports to lenders, credit card companies, insurers, and employers for credit, insurance and employment decisions”
  • listing examples of consumer reporting agencies as: Equifax, Transunion, and Experian
  • “Thomson Reuters . . . acknowledges that it is regulated by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act . . . .”
  • “A ‘consumer reporting agency’ is an entity that intends the information it furnishes to constitute a ‘consumer report.’”

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