On May 3, 2018, Weiner & Sand LLC, on behalf of its client George David Burks II, filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia against Gem Shopping Network, Inc.  According to the lawsuit, Gem Shopping Network violated the Fair Labor Standards Act when it

It is now the norm that employers use background reports to evaluate job candidates. Additionally, employers may periodically order background reports about current employees to make employment decisions. These background reports, also called consumer reports, can contain highly personal information, including a person’s criminal history, credit history, educational background, employment history, references, and

On March 22, 2016, The Weiner Law Firm, on behalf of its client Alexia Williams, filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia against consumer reporting agencies GoodHire, LLC and CoreLogic National Background Data LLC.  According to the lawsuit, GoodHire and NBD violated Section 1681e(b) of

On October 16, 2015, The Weiner Law Firm filed a Complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on behalf of our client, Jessica Scott, against GoodHire, LLC and DLC Audit Tax and Advisory.  Plaintiff alleges in the Complaint that DLC had hired her for a position

On January 18, 2016, The Weiner Law Firm filed a Complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on behalf of our client, David Meriwether, against Ole Mexican Foods and S2 Verify.  Plaintiff alleges in the Complaint that Ole had hired him to be its Controller in

According to the American Bar Association, there are nearly 30,000 lawyers practicing in Georgia.  Very few, however, make the list of Legal Elite in Georgia Trend Magazine.  We are happy to announce that this year both Andy Weiner and Jeff Sand were named Legal Elite in the area of Labor and Employment

We receive numerous calls from applicants and employees who ask if they can sue a background check company for defamation because the background check company included inaccurate information on a background report. Sometimes the information is simply wrong – the background check contains someone’s else’s information. Sometimes the information is inaccurate –

When a background reporting company runs a background check, it typically takes an individual’s identifying information such as first name, middle name, last name, birthdate, social security number or other information, and tries to match that information to a court record. Problems often arise when multiple people have the same name and other

The Fair Credit Reporting Act requires background check companies to use reasonable procedures to ensure maximum possible accuracy of the information in their background reports.  All too often, however, background report companies make errors in background reports and do not utilize reasonable procedures to ensure the accuracy of the information in their

Have you applied for job recently and had a background check run on you? Was the background report run by one of the following consumer reporting agencies: Accurate Background American Databank EmployeeScreenIQ General Information Services, Inc. GoodHire Hirease Info Cubic IntelliCorp PreCheck Pre-employ.com Professional Screening SterlingBackCheck Trak 1 Technology Truescreen If any