A man whose parking receipt exposed the full expiration date of his credit card lacked standing to sue over the data leak, a federal appeals court ruled this week, providing new case law in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Spokeo v. Robins decision.

In its Wednesday opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found that Steven Bassett lacked Article III standing to sue parking garage operator ABM Industries Inc. for violating the federal Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act. The unanimous panel, which affirmed dismissal of the case, said its ruling was in line with Spokeo and decisions in the two other circuits, as well as its own prior rulings that sided with the plaintiffs, largely because no one saw or stole Bassett’s receipt.

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