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Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issues guidance on virtual currency

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 16 2013

FinCEN recently issued interpretive guidance to clarify that it views certain activities involving convertible virtual currencies as money

New law eliminates ATM fee decal requirement on or at ATM equipment

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 15 2013

On December 20, 2012, President Obama signed into law H.R. 4367, eliminating the requirement that ATM operators post notice of a service fee on or at

Will New Jersey join other states requiring cash back for certain stored value cards?

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 5 2012

On June 25, 2012, both the New Jersey Assembly and Senate voted to approve Senate Bill 1928, an act amending, among other laws, P.L. 2010, c.25

Significant changes to California's Mechanics Lien Law coming July 1, 2012

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 16 2012

Effective July 1, all of the existing statutes governing mechanics liens, stop notices and payment bonds in California will be repealed and replaced by updated statutes

California court OKs collecting consumer zip codes to combat credit card fraud

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 22 2012

Just over a year after it was filed, Chevron Corporation and other oil companies won dismissal of a putative privacy class action filed after the California Supreme Court's decision in Pineda v. Williams-Sonoma Stores, Inc

Third Circuit finds no willful violation of FACTA for printing partial expiration date

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 26 2012

The Third Circuit confirmed that, while the merchant’s printing of a partial credit card expiration date on the customer’s receipt violated the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, the merchant’s interpretation of Section 1681c(g)(1) of FACTA had been objectively reasonable

Congressional repeal of 'Ttruth in Savings Act' enforcement bars similar private suits in CA

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 30 2011

On November 21, 2011, California's Second District Court of Appeal confirmed that when Congress repealed consumers' statutory right to enforce compliance with the federal Truth in Savings Act, "it intended to bar all private actions alleging TISA violations, including indirect enforcement suits brought under California's unfair competition law."

Option ARM with teaser rate disclosures potentially fraudulent under state law

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 13 2011

A California state court addressed for the first time whether a borrower can state claims under California law based on allegedly fraudulent Option ARM loan disclosures

craigslist defeats claim that Song-Beverly Credit Card Act governs online transactions

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 8 2011

San Francisco Superior Court sustains craigslist, Inc.’s demurrer to plaintiff Norman Gonor’s class action alleging violations of California’s Song-Beverly Credit Card Act in connection with online transactions involving credit cards

Starting January 1st, Oregon will require cash redemption for certain gift cards

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 30 2011

On June 14, Governor John Kitzhaber signed into law Oregon Senate Bill 756, which amends Oregon’s gift card law to prohibit selling a gift card that does not give the cardholder the option to redeem it for cash when the balance on the card is less than $5 and the card has been used for at least one purchase