SCOTUS Won’t Review Receipt Redaction Class Action

The U.S. Supreme Court June 19 declined to review a class action over a Wisconsin restaurant’s alleged failure to truncate the credit card expiration dates on customers’ receipts (Meyers v. Nicolet Restaurant of De Pere, LLC, U.S., No. 16-01113, petition for certioriari denied 6/19/17).

The petition sought high court review of the the first federal appeals court case to address standing in a Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act case following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Spokeo v. Robins.

In December, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that, although failure to truncate ...