Legal Opinion

Villagran v. Freeway Ford, Ltd.

District Court, S.D. Texas

Decided September 10, 2007No. Civil Action H-05-2687PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM AND OPINION

LEE H. ROSENTHAL, District Judge.

Margarita Villagran sues on her own behalf and on behalf of a class of people sent mailings by Freeway Ford, Ltd., an automobile dealership, and its general partner, Stephen E. Prather, Inc. Villa-gran alleges that the mailings violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), 15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq., because they used information obtained without authorization from the addressees’ credit reports, for a purpose not permitted under the Act. The FCRA allows companies such as the defendants to use information obtained from consumers’ credit…

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