Judge Sets June 15 Scheduling Conference in FCRA Case Against Verizon
U.S. Magistrate Judge Sonja Bivins for Northern Alabama in Selma set a telephone call-in scheduling conference for June 15 at 10 a.m. in plaintiff Miranda Bennett’s Fair Credit Reporting Act complaint against Verizon, said her signed order Wednesday (docket 2:23-cv-00091).…
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The conference will aid the court and the parties “in working to secure a just, speedy, and inexpensive resolution of this matter,” said the order. Counsel for the parties should be prepared at the conference “to discuss the specific discovery that will likely be needed, the existence and location of any electronic discovery, and the parties’ efforts to resolve this case,” it said. Bennett’s complaint alleges Verizon violated the FCRA by failing to permanently and lawfully correct its own internal records to prevent the re-reporting of false representations to the consumer credit reporting agencies (see 2303160051).