The report allegedly listed the same charges twice, and she was told to leave the same day
A job applicant says an inaccurate background report cost her a new job - now the screening company faces a class action.
The lawsuit was filed July 22, 2026 in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against HR-Revolution LLC, a company that produces background reports for employers. The applicant, a North Carolina resident, is suing on behalf of herself and others in a similar position under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, or FCRA - the federal law that sets the rules for how consumer and background information is collected and shared.
For HR teams, the case is a reminder of how much weight a single vendor report can carry in a hiring decision, and how the fallout lands on both the candidate and the employer when a report is alleged to be wrong.
Here is what the complaint alleges. On April 7, 2026, the applicant applied for a job at a North Carolina health and rehabilitation facility and, after a series of interviews, received an offer. According to the filing, the employer ordered her background report from HR-Revolution on April 10, 2026, and the company delivered it on April 14. That same day, the complaint says, she was told in front of her orientation class that she needed to leave the facility.
When she tried to contest the decision, the complaint says she was told the report would only go back seven years, but that the report went back further than that.
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