In misc.industry.utilities.electric SpammersDie wrote:

| Nothing forces a lender to pay any attention to FICO's "judgements" any more
| than anyone forces you to pay attention to a Consumer Reports rating. And
| nothing legally forces you do something based on a FICO. You might have
| trouble getting people to let you use their money but it's not like you had
| any fundamental right to use someone's money in the first place.

However, you do have a fundamental right not be be libeled. Most consumers
are getting approximately correct scores. But that just makes the exceptions
all that much worse because no one will believe it.

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