California Court of Appeal
Flores v. Chevron USA Inc., B240477
Summary judgment for defendant in class action alleging violation of the Song-Beverly Credit Card Act (Act) by sometimes requiring customers to provide their ZIP codes when buying gasoline with credit cards, is affirmed, where: 1) defendant requires ZIP codes only in pay-at-the-pump transactions at locations where there is a high risk of fraud, uses the information only to prevent fraud, and purges the information shortly after the credit card transactions are reconciled; and 2) defendant's conduct does not violate the Act, because the personal identification information is required for a special purpose incidental but related to the individual credit card transaction, namely, the purpose of ensuring that the individual credit card transaction is not fraudulent.
Appellate Information
- Decided 06/20/2013
- Published 06/20/2013
Judges
- ROTHSCHILD
Court
- California Court of Appeal