Benoit
Benoit v. Transworld Systems, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
ROBERT BENOIT, Case No. 24-cv-01046-VC
Plaintiff,
ORDER DENYING MOTION TO
v. DISMISS
TRANSWORLD SYSTEMS, INC., et al., Re: Dkt. No. 12 Defendants.
The motion to dismiss is denied with regard to both the FCRA and invasion of privacy claims. This ruling assumes that the reader is familiar with the facts, the applicable legal standards, and the arguments made by both parties. FCRA. The Ninth Circuit established the pleading standards for the FCRA claim brought by Benoit in Nayab v. Capital One Bank (USA), N.A., 942 F.3d 480 (9th Cir. 2019). This complaint is similar to the one that the court held was viable in Nayab: Benoit asserts that the defendants ran a credit report on him without a permissible purpose, and he includes allegations that the defendants had no business or contractual relationship with him, that the defendants were not involved in any debt collection activity pertaining to a debt of his, that the defendants were never retained by a creditor of his, and that the defendants never contacted him to collect on any of his debts. The defendants argue that this is…