Friday, April 27, 2007

Lawsuit Filed

"the nation's retailers are coming under legal assault for printing too much payment-card information on customer receipts."

"As of Dec. 4, retailers are prohibited from printing more than the last five digits of a credit-card or debit-card account number on receipts that are handed to customers. The receipts also can't include the account's expiration date."

"We firmly believe Congress did not intend to allow these class-action lawyers to claim hundreds of millions of dollars in damages when no one has actually suffered any monetary harm," Arnold Wensinger, general counsel for Irvine, Calif.-based In-N-Out Burger, said in a statement.

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I don't see any problem with In-N-Out quickly complying with this - Franchise companies like Wendy's will have a little more trouble.

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