A would-be Manhattan doorman who claims he was denied a job because a company purporting to do background checks wrongly reported that he has a criminal record is taking on the consumer reporting industry in a federal class action filed Thursday.
Kevin A. Jones lodged a consumer class action against Sterling Infosystems, which claims to be the largest background checking firm in the world, in the Southern District. The suit, Jones v. Sterling Infosystems, 14-cv-3076, alleges violations of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act and the New York Fair Credit Reporting Act.
