AmEx Foreign Call Center Class Action Nixed

Feb. 15, 2012, 5:00 AM UTC

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Jan. 27 dismissed on res judicata grounds a putative class action against American Express Co. alleging that it transmitted credit cardholders’ personal financial information to foreign-based call centers, thus making the information subject to interception by the U.S. government (Pickman v. Am. Express Co., N.D. Cal., No. 3:11-cv-05326-WHA).

The named plaintiff brought three similar actions against the company within one year. The court noted that the plaintiff voluntarily dismissed her claims in the other two cases: Aneke v. Am. Express Travel Related Servs. Inc., D.D.C., No. 1:11-cv-01008-GK ...

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