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

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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  • USA
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  • 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

6th Circuit: State's plan to claim abandoned checks sooner doesn't violate due process

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 18 2011

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in American Express Travel Related Serv. Co., Inc., v. Commonwealth of Kentucky, et al., held that an amendment to Kentucky's unclaimed property law that shortened the presumptive abandonment period for traveler's checks from 15 years to 7 does not violate the Due Process Clause

California Supreme Court: "requesting and recording a cardholder's ZIP code" violated state law

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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  • USA
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  • February 11 2011

On February 10, 2011, in Pineda v. Williams-Sonoma Stores, Inc., the California Supreme Court reversed the Fourth District Appellate Court, holding that the definition of "personal identification information" in California's Song-Beverly Credit Card Act of 1971 includes a customer's ZIP code

The $10 limit: court clarifies California’s law on redemption of retail gift cards

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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  • USA
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  • January 25 2010

The federal District Court, Southern District of California, issued the first decisions interpreting Section 1749.5(b) of California’s Gift Card Law since its amendment in 2007 confirming that merchants have the right to refuse to redeem a gift card for cash where the balance is $10 or more