Federal Judge Rules Against Retailer In Credit Card Receipt Case
Written by Evan SchumanThe ongoing lawsuits against major retailers for printing prohibited information on credit card receipts is allowed to proceed, with judge describing a key retail defense "absurd" and "bizarre."
U.S. District Judge Gary Allen Feess shot down the retailer's arguments that the law is confusingly worded. "Adidas attempts to obfuscate this plain meaning by advancing two 'competing' interpretations that border on the absurd. First, Adidas contends that the statute could be read to 'allow a business to print the credit card's expiration date on the receipt so long as no more than the last 5 digits of the card appear.' Second, Adidas argues it could be read so that the phrase 'last 5 digits' modifies both 'card number' and 'expiration date,' and thus that a business would be in compliance so long as it truncated the card number and printed only the last five digits of the expiration date. Each interpretation is bizarre," the judge wrote.
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May 10th, 2007 at 9:47 am
Agreeing for the sake of discussion that the law prohibits printing the expiration date on a receipt, what would be the harm in so doing, if that were the only thing printed?