The U.S. government can be forced to pay damages for violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Chicago’s federal appeals court has held in a case brought by a lawyer who argues an electronic receipt for a lawsuit-filing fee contained too much personal information. In what is apparently the first appellate ruling in the nation on the issue, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday held that the FCRA waives the immunity from damages that the federal government would otherwise enjoy. But while the lawyer …