A federal appeals court ruled in San Francisco today that an unemployed Virginia man can go ahead with a lawsuit against a people-search website that he claims published inaccurate information about him. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that Thomas Robins allegations that Spokeo Inc. violated the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act were sufficient to allow a trial on his 2010 lawsuit. The Spokeo.com site, which describes itself as a “people search engine,” was founded in Mountain View in 2006 by four Stanford University graduates and is now headquartered in Pasadena.
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