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Federal court decides that data breach case against supermarket chain can proceed, but only as to one plaintiff

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 15 2009

Earlier this week, the United States District Court for the District of Maine issued its ruling on a motion to dismiss a class action complaint against a supermarket chain based on a massive data breach

California Supreme Court's ZIP code decision exposes retailers to new litigation hazard, statutory fines

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 11 2011

A recent decision of the California Supreme Court is sending a chill through a common retail practice: requesting a customer's ZIP code during a credit card transaction for research and marketing purposes

Court rules that policy does not cover advertising or personal injury arising from restaurant's failure to comply with credit card privacy laws

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 1 2008

In Whole Enchilada Inc. v. Travelers Property Casualty Co., No. 07-1533, 2008 WL 4442061 (W.D. Pa. Sept. 29, 2008), Pennsylvania U.S. District Judge Nora Barry Fischer ruled that Whole Enchilada’s two commercial general liability policies issued by Travelers Property Casualty Co. does not cover a class action lawsuit brought against it for printing too much credit card information on customers’ receipts in violation of federal law

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court expands consumer zip code privacy protection in Tyler v. Michaels Stores

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 12 2013

In a closely watched case with a somewhat unexpected result, the highest Massachusetts court decided in Tyler v. Michaels Stores that zip codes are