3rd Circuit: J. Crew Patron Pleaded No Concrete Identity Theft Harm In FACTA Suit

Mealey's (March 11, 2019, 1:01 PM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — Affirming a trial court’s dismissal of a putative class action against J. Crew Group Inc. under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA), a Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on March 8 held that a customer of the retailer failed to plead to any concrete harm in the purported increased risk of identity theft from the printing of 10 digits from his credit card number on his receipts (Ahmed Kamal v. J. Crew Group Inc., et al., No. 17-2345 and 17-2453, 3rd Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 7053)....