COMPLAINT | Sciortino v. Merscorp Holding, Inc. – MERS Accused Of Secretly Selling Consumer Info [link]

Identifier: gov.uscourts.gand.185210
Assigned-to: Judge Amy Totenberg
Case-cause: 15:1681 Fair Credit Reporting Act
Case-name: Sciortino v. Merscorp Holding, Inc.
Court: gand
Date-case-filed: 2012-07-13
Docket-num: 1:12-cv-02446
Jurisdiction: Federal Question
Jury-demand: Plaintiff
Mediatype: texts
Nature-of-suit: 480 Consumer Credit
Pacer-case-num: 185210
Referred-to: Magistrate Judge Walter E. Johnson



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A putative class of consumers hit a Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. unit with a suit Friday in Georgia alleging the company, which creates consumer reports and maintains files on 63 million people, secretly collects and sells confidential information on residential mortgage applicants.

The putative class action alleges that the information collected by Merscorp Holdings Inc. is included in the consumer reports it sells, which contain confidential identifying information such as Social Security numbers and dates of birth.

The suit alleges that Merscorp uploads mortgage application…

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