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/.
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SOURCE Manifestation Machine