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• Uber drivers dealt setback in background-check lawsuit

  September 12, 2016 - Uber won a courtroom victory on Wednesday when an appeals court ruled that drivers are subject to individual arbitration in a lawsuit over background checks, a ruling that might help the ride-hailing company fend off another costly class action lawsuit filed by its drivers.   While the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals found that agreements signed by two former drivers for the service over background checks "clearly and unmistakably" require legal disputes be settled by a private arbiter, the reasoning may be applied to another class action lawsuit filed by drivers over the company's employment classifications. Uber agreed to settle that lawsuit earlier this year -- an agreement that was rejected by a federal j...

• Trump Softens Stance on Illegals Without Criminal Records

  September 06, 2016 - Donald Trump clarified his stance on immigration during a Wednesday interview, saying he'll deport illegals who have a criminal record in the U...

• Toronto announces new Uber licence, background checks for drivers

  September 02, 2016 - A month after contentious rules to legalize UberX were supposed to come into effect, the City of Toronto said on Tuesday that it had issued a new s...

• Clinton, Trump supporters share views on background checks

  August 30, 2016 - Most supporters from both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton camps favor expanding background checks to include private gun sales and at gun shows, b...

• How to Pass a C.I.A. Background Check

  August 22, 2016 - “Withholding information from us will not work in your favor,” says Ronald S. Patrick, deputy director of talent development at the Cen...

• Growing demand for firms providing pre-employment screening

  August 19, 2016 - The UAE may gradually move to introduce mandatory background checks on job applicants in the financial services sector, many experts believe, as th...

• How Many Guns Slip Through Background Check Loopholes?

  August 15, 2016 - To answer that question, we need to know how many are sold with a background check, and that statistic doesn't really exist.   Bac...

• FBI: July Was 15th Straight Month Of Record Background Checks

  August 08, 2016 - The latest figures from the FBI show that July 2016 was the 15th consecutive month of record background checks for gun sales. The previous July...

• NYU Begins Ignoring Common App’s Questions on Criminal Records

  August 04, 2016 - New York University has begun ignoring the checkbox questions about criminal and disciplinary history on the Common Application, the institution an...

• Drug "Kingpin' Bust: Defendants' records revealed

  August 02, 2016 - Accused heroin trafficker Terrence "Money" Wise had at least two run-ins with Broome County police in drug cases going back 12 years and...

• Judge Hits Uber’s Background Check on Passenger Bringing Price-Fixing Suit

  July 28, 2016 - A federal judge on Monday banned Uber Technologies Inc. and its Chief Executive Travis Kalanick from using information from a background check on a...

• FBI: Gun Background Checks Surged During First Six Months of 2016

  July 26, 2016 - The number of applications for federal background checks, which are legally required for potential firearm buyers, surged during the first half of...

• Dallas shooter acted alone, say police

  July 14, 2016 - The shooter who killed five police officials and injured seven in Dallas, Texas earlier in the week acted alone, the police said, adding that he wa...

• FBI background checks surge in June

  July 12, 2016 - Following the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, federal background checks for gun purchases surged in June.   The Federal Burea...

• FBI: Nearly 52,000 Background Checks A Day Under Obama

  July 08, 2016 - FBI figures for National Instant Criminal Background Check System checks performed during Obama’s presidency average out to nearly 52,000 che...

• L.A. Mayor Wants Colleges to Stop Asking About Criminal Records

  July 06, 2016 - Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is asking companies that design and print college admission papers to stop inquiring about students’ criminal...

• Hawaii enacts first state law in U.S. to place gun owners in database

  June 28, 2016 - While the issue of gun control has made little headway in Congress, Hawaii this week enacted a series of gun laws, one of which the governor says m...

• Orlando shooter’s firm ran two background checks on him, it said, and found nothing

  June 23, 2016 - G4S, the massive security company that employed the man believed to have killed 49 people at a nightclub in Orlando, said it was aware that the FBI...