158 Mich. App. 508 - People v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “... In our opinion, defendant construes the statute far too narrowly. The statute is designed to protect ... the person in whose name a card is issued.... In the instant case, the credit card was issued pursuant to solicitation from one whom the issuer believed to be Theresa Holland. Construed in this manner, Holland was a cardholder. Construed narrowly, as defendant urges, the statute affords no protection to the real cardholder ... where persons representing themselves to be someone else request and receive a credit card. We do not believe that the Legislature intended to exclude from the act’s operation fraudulent users who obtained unrequested cards....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Baker v. Citibank (South Dakota) N.A.