October 05, 2015
A California federal judge agreed Monday to dismiss a proposed class action accusing Kohl's Department Stores Inc. of improperly running background checks on job applicants, finding that two former employees who filed the suit failed to demonstrate any willful violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
September 25, 2015
The California federal judge overseeing a proposed class action claiming Kohl's Department Stores Inc.'s employee credit-report disclosures violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act said Friday that the plaintiffs' argument — that the disclosures were faulty because they were combined with other paperwork — "makes no sense whatsoever."
August 31, 2015
A former worker accusing Kohl's Department Stores of using ambiguous and misleading language to obtain credit reports in violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act told a California federal judge Friday that the retailer's bid to dismiss the proposed class action rests on a faulty interpretation of the law.
June 11, 2015
Kohl's Department Stores Inc. allegedly used ambiguous and misleading language to obtain credit reports from job applicants in violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, according to a proposed class action complaint filed in California federal court Tuesday.