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Company: Instant Checkmate LLC
Penalty: $2,000,000
Year: 2024
Date: February 15, 2024
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: privacy violation
Violation Description: Five background checking services agreed to create a $10 million settlement fund to resolve litigation alleging they violated privacy rights. The settlement did not specify how the cost of the fund would be divided. Here we assume each company was responsible for an equal share.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: private litigation
Court: Northern District of Illinois
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Case ID: 1:19-cv-04892
Case Name: Fischer et al v. Instant Checkmate LLC
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
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