Tag Archives: Song-Beverly Credit Card Act

Wal-Mart Prevails in Credit Card Class Battle Over Practice of Collecting Addresses and Phone Numbers

By Julian Perlman on October 8, 2013 Posted in Class Actions Privacy, Consumer Class Action

Editor’s Note: This post is a joint submission with BakerHostetler’s Data Privacy Monitor blog. In a victory for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., a federal district court judge has refused to certify a Rule 23(b)(3) class in a lawsuit for violation of California’s Song-Beverly Credit Card Act (Cal. Civ. Code § 1747 et seq., available here. Plaintiff … Continue Reading

Massachusetts Echoes California and Disavows Data Mining by Zip Code

By Yulia Fradkin on March 19, 2013 Posted in Class Actions Privacy, Class Certification, Consumer Fraud

In a decision last week, the Massachusetts Supreme Court held that zip codes are personally identifiable information, perhaps serving as a harbinger for other state court decisions still to come. This ruling is important for all retailers when considering their privacy practices in conjunction with ever-evolving privacy laws, especially in the class action context. In Tyler … Continue Reading