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A federal magistrate judge granted preliminary approval last week to settle a proposed class action lawsuit against a California credit union for allegedly violating state and federal laws after denying a personal loan and membership to a woman because she could only provide a "work only" Social Security number as a recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy of 2012.

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