United States Second Circuit

In case involving a seller of prepaid gift cards who sued to prevent the Connecticut Attorney General from enforcing a state consumer protection law regulating the terms and conditions of such card, dismissal of the complaint is vacated in part where plaintiff stated a valid claim for preemption insofar as the Connecticut Gift Card Law prohibits expiration dates.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/19/2007
• Published 10/19/2007

Judges

• B.D. PARKER, JR., Circuit Judge:, Before:  B.D. PARKER, RAGGI, and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Margaret M. Pinkham (Paul W. Shaw, on the brief), Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP, Boston, MA, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Julie L. Williams, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.


• For Appellees:
  
• Clare E. Kindall, Assistant Attorney General (Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General, Susan Quinn Cobb, Perry Zinn Rowthorn, Jane R. Rosenberg, Assistant Attorneys General, on the brief), Hartford, CT, for Defendant-Appellee.