Court Approves Settlement of FCRA Class Action

The U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota approved a class action settlement agreement resolving charges that the owners and operators of Burrito Union restaurant violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act’s prohibition against issuing receipts displaying more than five digits of a consumer’s credit card number and/or the card’s expiration date (Anderson v. Nelson, D. Minn., No. 0:10-cv-01929-SRN-JJK).

The court concluded that the settlement agreement—under which the defendants agreed to give each of some 28,482 class members a $10 food voucher to be used at Burrito Union, pay the three named plaintiffs up to $5,000 in total ...