While the Legislature has been racing to meet deadlines in Carson City, the Supreme Court in Washington has set itself something of a marathon to its July finish line. It nonetheless delivered a blow for common sense Monday when it threw out a class-action lawsuit against Geico.

The ruling barred the class, which had not received routine credit notices, from suing simply on that fact alone, reports the Los Angeles Times.

The encouraging news in this case is that a near-unanimous court ruled no-harm, no foul. Simply because some technicality of the Fair Credit Reporting Act had not been met, there was no reason to launch a massive class-action lawsuit. We sure could do with a bit more common sense that distinguished real harm from these try-ons.

So far the Ninth Circuit is batting about .001 with its appeals before the Supreme Court this term. And if they keep- making crazy decisions like the Geico case, the average isn’t going to get better any time soon.