Kansas City, Mo. – September 22, 2025: Chuck Rouse, attorney for Rouse Frets White Goss Gentile Rhodes, P.C., assisted a client in defending class action lawsuits filed against gift card issuers and retailers claiming that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) required the use of braille on retail gift cards. Chuck worked with local attorneys in California to successfully end the matter without class certification.
About Chuck Rouse: Chuck has practiced for the past 25-plus years extensively in the area of regulatory compliance regarding payment methods, payment instruments and prepaid cards/access instruments. He is a winner of the National Law Journal’s Trailblazer Award for Cryptocurrency/Blockchain/Fintech, was selected by the payments industry as one of the Top 10 Payment Lawyers in the U.S. and as the No. 1 overall, and received the ICON Award by Missouri Lawyers Weekly. Chuck has designed compliance models for more than 500 prepaid card programs, and is an inventor on patents regarding legal technologies in the payments sector, including methods and systems for optimizing escheat and derecognizing prepaid cards, stored value cards, credit memos, and electronic payment instruments.
About the Payments and Prepaid Instruments Practice Group: The Payments Group of the law firm addresses compliance of prepaid card and payment instrument programs with federal and state regulations with their work over time touching over a trillion dollars of card loads on billions of cards in hundreds of card programs in many countries. The Payments Group’s worldwide practice focuses upon compliance with regulations governing the prepaid card industry, including consumer protection laws, unclaimed property laws, anti-money laundering regulations, licensing requirements, privacy rules, fraud laws, local taxation laws, and GAAP standards.
About the Firm’s Litigation Practice Group: The firm’s litigation attorneys have more than 250 years of combined trial and appellate court experience, including business-to-business cases, individual and business cases, simple two-party disputes, and complex class action cases. The Litigation practice group has collective experience in more than 40 states and in eight federal circuits, including more than 500 bench and jury trials.
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