Winston & Strawn LLP

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Winston & Strawn LLP, founded in 1853, is one of the nation's oldest and largest law firms. With nearly 1,000 attorneys in offices in Charlotte, Chicago, Newark, New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Moscow, Russian Federation, San Francisco, Geneva, Switzerland, Paris, France, and London, England, the firm provides a full range of legal services to clients throughout the United States and abroad, including Fortune 500 companies, major commercial and financial institutions, governments and governmental entities, as well as small and midsize companies, individuals and entrepreneurs from virtually every industry.

Alternative Dispute Resolution, Antitrust, Asset Securitization, Banking, Bankruptcy, Workouts and Financial Restructurings, Commercial Lending, Contracts, Corporate, Corporate Finance, E-Commerce, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, Energy, Environmental Law, Healthcare, Immigration, Intellectual Property, International, Labor and Employment Relations, Lease Finance, Litigation, Maritime, Mergers and Acquisitions, Product Liability, Project Finance, Public Finance, Real Estate, Securities, State and Federal Governmental Relations and Regulatory Affairs, Tax, Technology, Transportation, Trusts and Estates and White Collar Criminal Defense.

Court of Appeal Upholds that Zip Code Information is Not Personal Identification Information
David L. Aronoff, Gayle I. Jenkins, January 28, 2009
In Palmer v. Party City Corp., the Court of Appeal for the Fourth Appellate District of California held that a merchant's requesting and recording of a customer's zip code does not amount to the requesting and recording of protected "personal identification information" that is...

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