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Jan. 23, 2007

Merchants Swiped With Credit Card Fraud Suits

FORUM COLUMN - By Gregory F. Hurley and Marc B. Koenigsberg - The technicalities of a new anti-identity-theft law are ensnaring a lot of merchants in costly class actions.

Forum Column

By Gregory F. Hurley and Marc B. Koenigsberg
     
      A new wave of consumer class-action suits is entering the California courts under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, and recent targets have included American Multi-Cinema Inc., FedEx Kinko's, In-N-Out Burger, Urban Outfitters, Discovery Communications and KB Toys.
      The suits allege th...

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