{"id":273655,"date":"2013-08-15T14:06:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T19:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=273655"},"modified":"2013-08-16T16:07:30","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T21:07:30","slug":"east-texas-suit-targets-visa-mastercard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=273655","title":{"rendered":"East Texas Suit Targets Visa, MasterCard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/08\/Federal-Courthouse-Marshall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/08\/Federal-Courthouse-Marshall-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Federal Courthouse-Marshall\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-273742\" \/><\/a>MARSHALL \u2014 More than 100 major companies are suing Visa and MasterCard in federal court in Marshall. The list of plaintiffs includes TXU Energy, Wal-mart, Delta Airlines, and dozens of other big firms which claim the credit card companies are charging excessive fees. The issue centers on \u201cinterchange fees\u201d a business has to pay each time a customer uses a credit card. The lawsuit also asks the federal court to let the companies opt out of a related settlement in a class-action case last year. The city of Houston and Harris County have also joined the lawsuit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARSHALL \u2014 More than 100 major companies are suing Visa and MasterCard in federal court in Marshall. The list of plaintiffs includes TXU Energy, Wal-mart, Delta Airlines, and dozens of other big firms which claim the credit card companies are charging excessive fees. The issue centers on \u201cinterchange fees\u201d a business has to pay each &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=273655\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Texas Suit Targets Visa, MasterCard<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-08 05:51:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273655"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273759,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273655\/revisions\/273759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}