Visa, Mastercard swipe fee cases to head to New York court, judge says

Swipe Charges Cases Filed Against Visa Inc. AND Mastercard Inc. Cases filed by two retailer groups are ready to go to trial and should be returned to where they were originally filed, a federal judge ruled.

Judge Margo Brodie of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York issued an order Monday directing the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to refer the cases to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Objective and 7-Eleven, to the Southern District of New York, where the trial should take place. “Plaintiffs have elected to file this action in the Southern District of New York and will not be prejudiced by an attempt …