March 04, 2025
Telecommunications company CenturyLink's hopes of getting a new trial on claims that it illegally ran people's credit reports have been dashed after an Arizona federal judge said he has already explained "ad nauseum" that it doesn't make sense to make all 56,000 class members prove that they didn't want their credit pulled.
October 16, 2024
CenturyLink is asking for a new trial after a jury ordered it to pay more than $140 million for illegally running credit reports on customers looking for internet service on its website, telling an Arizona federal judge that no evidence from the case suggested that the company willfully violated the law.
February 03, 2023
An Arizona federal judge has certified a class of shoppers who accused CenturyLink of obtaining their credit reports before they placed orders on its website without permissible purpose, rejecting CenturyLink's argument that individual inquiries must be made to exclude anyone who signed a class action waiver or arbitration agreement.
March 13, 2017
CenturyLink Inc. urged an Arizona federal judge Friday not to rethink tossing for lack of standing a proposed class action accusing the company of violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act by obtaining a woman's consumer report before she placed an order, contending that a recent Ninth Circuit decision doesn't salvage the litigation.
February 16, 2017
An Arizona federal judge held Wednesday that a woman alleging CenturyLink Inc. violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act by obtaining her consumer reports before she placed an order lacks standing under the high court's landmark Spokeo decision to bring her proposed class action.