Tampa Judge Sets Dec. 2 Jury Trial on FCRA Claims vs. AT&T, Equifax, NCTUE
A jury trial is set for the term beginning Dec. 2 on plaintiff Linda Surrency’s Fair Credit Reporting Act claims against AT&T, Equifax and the National Consumer Telecom & Utilities Exchange (NCTUE), said a fast track case management and scheduling…
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order (docket 8:23-cv-02323). U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle for Middle Florida in Tampa signed the order Thursday. The discovery cut-off deadline in the case is May 3, said the order. Surrency’s Oct. 12 complaint alleges that AT&T, Equifax and the NCTUE were “plainly deficient” in their investigations of her credit reporting dispute over identity theft (see 2310160035). She alleges that AT&T failed to remove a fraudulent account from her NCTUE credit file and reports, in violation of the FCRA, despite being aware that identity thieves, not she, opened the fraudulent account.