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A class action is a type of legal action where a representative individual or group of individuals can bring a claim on behalf of a larger group or class who share a common legal interest.
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Class Action & MDL Roundup 2023 Q4 - Not All Cases Survive and Advance

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Welcome to the Class Action & MDL Roundup, our quarterly review of decisions and settlements in the class action arena. In this edition, student-athletes win an NIL round, Canadians in California isn’t personal...more

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Class Action & MDL Roundup – Summer 2021

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Welcome to the summer edition of the Class Action & MDL Roundup, covering significant decisions and settlements from the second quarter of 2021. In this edition, plaintiffs are doing their own science (badly), SCOTUS...more

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Supreme Court Raises Standing Requirements for Data Breach Class Actions

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With all the focus on data privacy, it is no surprise that courts are weighing in on this topic so that consumers can have more guidance about their legal options and organizations can tailor their breach response plans. On...more

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Data Breach Class Actions: U.S. Supreme Court Decision May Tilt the Odds in Favor of Defendant Organizations

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Corporate defendants besieged by proliferating bet-the-company privacy and consumer class action lawsuits recently scored a victory in the US Supreme Court with implications for data breach victims. Originally published in...more

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District Court Says Supreme Court Ruling on Standing in Class Actions Does Not Apply to Privacy Claims

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On June 25, 2021, the Supreme Court issued an important decision on Article III standing in class actions that will have a significant impact on the way class actions are certified - and will likely scuttle numerous ...more

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The U.S. Supreme Court Raises the Bar on Standing in Privacy and Data Breach Class Actions

On Friday, a sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling, which significantly impacts the plaintiffs’ ability to pursue privacy and data breach class actions in federal courts. In TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez, Case No....more

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Central District of California Rejects Class Claims, Finding That Disclosure of All Data Is Not Required Under FCRA Section...

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On November 18, 2020, the United States District Court for the Central District of California (the “Central District”) dismissed the First Amended Complaint of putative class representatives asserting a FCRA claim against...more

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With Consumer Protection Class Actions On the Rise, Is the Financial Services Industry in the Crosshairs?

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Lawyers or business people who feel they have been hearing about a lot more consumer protection class actions lately have good reason for that feeling. A recent report by Lex Machina, part of LexisNexis, highlights an...more

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FCRA Claims Dismissed in Massive Equifax Data Breach Case

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Yesterday, the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia granted a motion to dismiss FCRA claims in a case involving one of the largest data breaches in history....more

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Preliminary approval of class action settlement for Experian data breach exceeds $47M

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Remember Experian’s massive data breach of 15 million customers in 2015? The resulting consolidated class action is nearly resolved. On December 3, 2018, a California federal judge granted preliminary approval to a proposed...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Second Bid for Review in Spokeo

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied the petition for certiorari seeking review of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit's most recent decision in Spokeo v. Robins (Spokeo II), foregoing an opportunity to clarify...more

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Seyfarth’s 2018 Workplace Class Action Litigation Report Is Now Available!

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Seyfarth Synopsis: At 878 pages, Seyfarth’s 14th Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report analyzes 1,408 rulings and is our biggest and most voluminous Report ever. ...more

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Spokeo Standing in 2017

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With the year ending, and McGuireWoods’s webinar next week on class actions’ Hot Issues of 2017 approaching, this seems like a good time to take note of a few of the trends we have seen arising in class actions over the last...more

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Spokeo Speedwagon: Employers Forced To Take Privacy Breach Cases On The Run

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By now, most everyone has heard it from a friend who, heard it from a friend who, heard it from another about the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2016 decision in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins. It is the case being cited across the country in...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - August 2017

Ninth Circuit Finds in Spokeo Remand That Certain Statutory Violations Can Satisfy Article III’s Standing Requirement - In a highly anticipated decision, the Ninth Circuit ruled that violations of the Fair Credit Reporting...more

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Class Action Roundup: Summer 2017

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Welcome to our second Roundup of 2017, where we feature the cases litigated and settlements finalized during the second calendar quarter of the year. It was a very active quarter in almost all of the categories we monitor,...more

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Advertising Litigation Report: Vol. 2, No. 2 - Consumer Privacy and Data Security

Judge Trims Proposed Class Action Over Wendy’s Data Breach - Torres v. Wendy’s Int’l, LLC, No. 16-cv-0210 (PGB) (DCI) (M.D. Fla. Mar. 21, 2017). A U.S. district court judge in Florida trimmed a proposed class action...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Recent Circuit Court Opinions Offer Guidance on Challenging the Standing Requirement for Plaintiffs in Data Breach Cases

By following trends and monitoring successful defenses in data breach litigation, companies can often avoid the reputational harm caused by making headlines. For most companies,it is not a question of whether they have been...more

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Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Update Vol. 13

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On December 28, 2016, the New York Department of Financial Services ("DFS") released a revised version of a proposed regulation that would require banks, insurance companies, and other financial services institutions...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Third Circuit Finds FCRA Violation Alone Confers Standing for Data Breach Suit

The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently ruled that a data breach class action may proceed on the basis of a Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) violation alone, even where the putative class members do...more

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Third Circuit Moves Toward a Broader View of Standing in FCRA Data-Breach Class Action

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Recently, the Third Circuit widened the gates for certain data-breach plaintiffs, holding that alleged violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) constitute injuries-in-fact sufficient for Article III standing. In...more

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What to Make of the Third and Seventh Circuit Dueling Spokeo Rulings in Recent Privacy Breach Class Actions

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Spokeo-based challenges are now common in class actions alleging statutory violations. But disagreements remain concerning when Spokeo mandates dismissal for lack of Article III standing. Last week, two different federal...more

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Litigation Alert: The Third Circuit Holds That Allegations That Personal Information Was Improperly Disclosed in Violation of the...

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Last week, the Third Circuit held that allegations of the unauthorized disclosure of personal information in violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) constituted a de facto injury sufficient to confer standing at the...more

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Data Breach Class Action Reinstated Against Horizon Healthcare Services Inc.

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has vacated a district court's dismissal of a data breach class action filed against Horizon Healthcare Services Inc., in the wake of the 2013 theft of two computer laptops...more

Jackson Walker

Class Action Report - October 2016

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As the Supreme Court begins its new term, the trajectory of its recent class certification guidance will be a key issue for many. The spring and summer of 2016 delivered significant new contours in class certification...more

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