By the time Miles Scully went to trial for Urban Outfitters Inc. in August, dozens of retailers had been pounded in court over a seemingly mundane practice: asking customers for their ZIP code at checkout.
A ruling by California’s Supreme Court in 2011 that such requests can be a violation of the state’s Song-Beverly Credit Card Act had created a bit of an open season.
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