Groshek vs Goliath: Job Seeker Petitions Supreme Court in Background Check Row on Behalf of 40,000 Others
GREEN BAY, Wis., Nov. 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Cory Groshek, founder of personal growth and development brand Manifestation Machine and author of children's book "Breaking Away: Book One of the Rabylon Series" (ISBN: 978-1946029003), has announced he is taking a pair of Class Action lawsuits he filed in 2015 against Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation and Time Warner Cable Inc. (a subsidiary of Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR)), pursuant to the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
On Oct. 30, 2017, attorneys for Groshek filed a Petition for Writ of Certiorari with the Supreme Court, requesting that the Court reverse a decision of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, which affirmed an earlier dismissal of Groshek's cases over his alleged lack of "Article III standing" (a prerequisite for bringing suit in Federal Court).
In a statement, Groshek had the following to say about his Petition:
"The 7th Circuit, in affirming the dismissal of my lawsuits on August 1, 2017, completely disregarded the fact that, as a pre-condition of employment, both Great Lakes and Time Warner Cable required me and my fellow job applicants, of which there are 40,000-plus of us, to sign away our rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Furthermore, by making the erroneous determination that I, as someone who has suffered the exact type of 'concrete injury' Congress sought to prevent in passing this law, have no right to sue, the court has, in my opinion, 'legislated from the bench', by reading things into the law which are simply not there, and attempted to effectively, unilaterally nullify Federal Law."
Adding insult to "concrete injury", Groshek alleges, is the fact that Great Lakes denied him employment based on inaccurate information contained in his "consumer report."
Per page 28 of Groshek's Petition:
"…Great Lakes denied Groshek employment based in whole or in part on information contained in the consumer report they unlawfully obtained on him for employment purposes. Information in Groshek's consumer report was inaccurate in that it misrepresented a non-criminal civil ordinance violation as a criminal misdemeanor…"
In light of the foregoing, Groshek frames his case less as the fight of a so-called "Professional Plaintiff" against a pair of helpless, hapless victims than as a David-versus-Goliath'esque battle of Biblical proportions.
"Forget Groshek versus Great Lakes or Groshek versus Time Warner Cable, this is Groshek versus Goliath," says Groshek. "This is the 'little guy' versus a multi-billion-dollar, corporate behemoth with an army of attorneys and more money than God. That said, 'David versus Goliath' didn't end too well for Goliath and, with God as my witness, 'Groshek versus Goliath' isn't going to end well for Time Warner or Great Lakes, either."
The case of Cory Groshek, Petitioner v. Time Warner Cable Inc., et al. (Docket No. 17-688) is currently pending a decision from the Supreme Court.
To learn more about Cory Groshek, visit https://www.ManifestationMachine.com/.
SOURCE Manifestation Machine
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