Background Check's Reporting Expunged Conviction Isn't Defamation or Fair Credit Reporting Act Violation

From Smith v. InformData, LLC, decided Wednesday by Judge Rossie Alston (E.D. Va.): Plaintiff Harry Smith filed suit for ...
East Bay Times

Appeals court says California law requiring background checks for ammunition is unconstitutional

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A voter-backed California law requiring background checks for people who buy bullets is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday in a blow to the state’s ...
Network World

Court says government background security checks go too far

Can background checks go too far? The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals apparently thinks so. That court this week ruled against the federal government and in favor of employees at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...