The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that will decide whether the United States government can be sued for monetary damages.
The high court agreed on June 20 to review an appeals court ruling that Reginald Kirtz could sue the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for wrongly stating on his credit report that some of his loans were overdue, damaging his credit score.
At issue is whether Congress waived the United States’ sovereign immunity from lawsuits when it modified consumer protection laws nearly 30 years ago.
Kirtz sued the USDA in 2020, alleging that the agency violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), which Congress amended decades ago to impose new requirements on lenders….