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Biography
Ariana B. Kiener is an Associate in the Firm’s Minneapolis office and practices in the Firm’s Consumer Protection group, where she works primarily on class actions. Ari represents consumers in a wide range of cases but focuses her practice on representing consumers who have been harmed by inaccurate background checks and credit reports. Her career settlements are valued at more than $100 million.
Before joining the Firm, Ari worked for several years in education, first as a classroom teacher (through a Fulbright Scholarship in Northeastern Thailand) and eventually as the communications director for an education advocacy nonprofit organization. While in law school, she clerked at the Firm and served as a Certified Student Attorney and Student Director with the Mitchell Hamline Employment Discrimination Mediation Representation Clinic.
Prominent Judgments and Settlements
- Rodriguez v. National Credit Center, LLC, No. A-23-869000-B, (Nev. Dist. Ct.): $30 million settlement in class action alleging that defendant violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act by inaccurately reporting consumers as possible matches to the Office of Foreign Assets Control Specially Designated Nationals List.
- Bingollu v. One Source Tech., LLC, No. 22-CV-77 (DTS), 4 (D. Minn.): $2.4 million settlement in class action alleging that defendant violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act by inaccurately reporting that consumers’ social security numbers could not be verified or validated.
- Fernandez v. CoreLogic Credco, LLC, 20-cv-1262 (S.D. Cal.): $58.5 million settlement in class action alleging that defendant violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act and the California Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies Act by inaccurately reporting consumers as possible matches to the Office of Foreign Assets Control Specially Designated Nationals List and failing to adequately disclose the contents of its reporting to consumers upon request.
- Taylor v. Inflection Risk Solutions, LLC, 20-cv-2266 (D. Minn): $4 million settlement in class action alleging that defendant violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act by inaccurately reporting that consumers had committed felonies, when those crimes had in fact been deemed as less-serious misdemeanors, and also misreporting certain non-violent crimes as violent.
- Shaffer, et al. v. George Washington University, et al., 20-cv-01145 (D.D.C.): $5.4 million settlement alleging that defendants breached their contracts with students for in-person instruction when they transitioned to fully online learning, without issuing partial refunds for tuition or fees, during the Spring 2020 semester.
- Pfeifer, et al. v. Loyola University of Chicago, 1:20-cv-03116 (N.D. Ill.): $1.375 million settlement alleging that defendant breached its contracts with students when, during the Spring 2020 semester, it suspended in-person instruction and switched to fully remote instruction, without providing students with refunds for tuition or fees.
Speaking Engagements
- “FCRA Developments,” Consumer Rights Litigation Conference, Chicago, IL (Oct. 2023)
- “Pulling Back the Curtains on Class Actions,” University of Minnesota Student Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, Minneapolis, MN (Apr. 2023)
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Honors & Awards
- Fulbright Scholar, 2010-2011
Admissions
- Member – Minnesota
- Admitted – Minnesota Supreme Court
- Admitted – District of Minnesota
- Admitted – Eastern District of Michigan
- Admitted – U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit