Customers may be surcharged for using a credit card—but only as long as no calculations are required to figure out what would be saved by using cash—the New York Court of Appeals said Tuesday in its answer to a question about the state’s General Business Law posed by the federal courts.

The New York court said merchants’ commercial free speech rights were not infringed by the restriction placed on informing patrons of differential pricing.

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