Man Claims RapidCourt’s Background Check Cost Him His Job

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RapidCourt, LLC is facing a proposed class action filed by a Virginia man who claims the defendant’s alleged violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act cost him a job opportunity. The plaintiff says he applied for a position as a cook at Medical Facilities of America, Inc.’s Norfolk Rehabilitation Center and was offered the job that same day. His employer then sought a background report on the plaintiff from Apex Background Check, Inc., which procured the report from the defendant, the suit alleges. The background report supposedly contained criminal convictions from more than seven years earlier and several charges that were later dismissed or reduced, such as a conviction for assault and battery that was later appealed and changed to disorderly conduct.

After receiving the defendant’s report, the suit says, Medical Facilities of America rescinded its job offer. The plaintiff argues that RapidCourt was not permitted under the FCRA to report convictions from more than seven years prior and had no procedure in place to update inaccurate information. From the complaint:

“By failing to provide Plaintiff with the ‘fresh start’ mandated by Congress, and by failing to respect the privacy of Plaintiff’s information, Defendant did concrete harm to him and presented a portrait of him to prospective employers that was worse than it would have been had Defendant followed the law.”