In a 5-4 ruling this morning the Supreme Court sided with credit reporting agency TransUnion, scaling back a consumer class action lawsuit against the company, which had categorized thousands of people as potential terrorists. The opinion in TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez, court file 20-297 was written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh and backed by 4 conservative justices. On the other side were Justices Clarence Thomas and the 3 liberal justices. Thomas and Justice Elena Kagan both filed separate dissenting opinions. Lead plaintiff Sergio L. Ramirez is the representative for a class-action lawsuit against the credit reporting firm TransUnion. He claimed the company deliberately violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act by falsely reporting that his name appeared in the database operated by the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). According to the government, OFAC “administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions based on U.S. foreign policy and national security goals …