TRW Inc. v. Andrews

TRW Inc. v. Andrews
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 9, 2001
Decided November 13, 2001
Full case nameTRW Inc. v. Adelaide Andrews
Citations534 U.S. 19 (more)
122 S. Ct. 441; 151 L. Ed. 2d 339; 70 U.S.L.W. 4006; 2001 Cal. Daily Op. Service 9638; 2001 Daily Journal DAR 12011; 15 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 1
Case history
PriorAndrews v. Trans Union Corp., 7 F. Supp. 2d 1056 (C.D. Cal. 1998); affirmed in part, reversed in part, Andrews v. TRW Inc., 225 F.3d 1063 (9th Cir. 2000); cert. granted, 532 U.S. 902 (2001).
SubsequentRemanded, 289 F.3d 600 (9th Cir. 2001).
Court membership
Chief Justice
William Rehnquist
Associate Justices
John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor
Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy
David Souter · Clarence Thomas
Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
MajorityGinsburg, joined by Rehnquist, Stevens, O'Connor, Kennedy, Souter, and Breyer
ConcurrenceScalia (in judgment), joined by Thomas
Laws applied
Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1681p

TRW Inc. v. Andrews, 534 U.S. 19 (2001), is a United States Supreme Court decision holding that the discovery rule (that a federal statute of limitations begins to run when a party knows or has reason to know that she was injured) does not apply to the two-year statute of limitations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act.[1][2]

  1. ^ TRW Inc. v. Andrews, 534 U.S. 19 (2001).
  2. ^ CRS Report RS21083, Identity Theft and the Fair Credit Reporting Act: An Analysis of TRW v. Andrews and Current Legislation (January 5, 2004). Public domain This article incorporates public domain material from this U.S government document.