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In this episode of The Consumer Finance Podcast, Chris Willis is joined by Partners Ron Raether and Tim St. George to discuss a landmark victory in a major data breach class action multidistrict litigation. The team delves...more
Welcome back to the Class Action & MDL Roundup! This edition covers notable class actions from the first quarter of 2024. In this edition, UK High Court weighs in on information asymmetry, debit is better than credit,...more
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
Welcome back to the Class Action & MDL Roundup! This edition covers notable class actions from the third quarter of 2023. In this edition, a mistake is just a mistake, “99.99%” isn’t 100% clear, and faxes aren’t always...more
Class actions have been a feature of the litigation landscape in the USA for decades. Claimant-friendly procedures combined with an aggressive and well-funded plaintiffs’ bar have created fertile ground for these large,...more
Pierce Atwood's Class Action Defense group is pleased to present this New England and First Circuit Class Action Tracker, which focuses on the filings and decisions in state and federal courts within the boundaries of the...more
On February 21, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that a proposed class action over website login procedures belongs in state court. Plaintiff alleged that after a nonparty credit reporting agency...more
On January 4, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas granted final approval of an $11 million class action settlement resolving allegations related to a February 2021 data breach that compromised more than...more
Welcome back to the Class Action & MDL Roundup! This edition covers notable class actions from the second quarter of 2022. In this edition, fail-safe classes fail, consumers smoke a motion to dismiss, and you can’t bring...more
Welcome to the first edition of the Payments Docket, our roundup of key litigation involving the payment industry. This edition features a stolen cell phone number used to buy cryptocurrency, a pair of class actions accusing...more
The saga of the Capital One data breach, which impacted an estimated 106 million individuals in the U.S. and Canada, may soon be coming to an end. After more than two years of litigation, the parties have reached a settlement...more
Two major U.S. financial institutions, Morgan Stanley and Capital One, recently agreed to resolve separate class action lawsuits by paying, in the aggregate, hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation for massive data...more
Last week, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ordered Capital One to produce a forensic investigation report in multidistrict litigation arising out of the cyber incident Capital One announced in...more
Capital One Required to Produce Forensic Report in Class Action - As a litigator, when responding to any security incident, thoughtful consideration is given to the possibility that the security incident may wind up in...more
As a litigator, when responding to any security incident, thoughtful consideration is given to the possibility that the security incident may wind up in litigation, and therefore, certain decisions are made in anticipation of...more
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
Real Property Update - Quiet Title / Extinguishment: mortgage merged and ceased to be an encumbrance when the mortgage on land and the equity of redemption in the same land become united in the same person - Young Land...more
Many readers have reached out to learn about the Capital One data breach and how it affects us. If you haven’t been watching the story unfold as closely as I have, here is a summary of what happened, what information was...more
Markets around the world took a beating yesterday amidst concerns about steel tariffs and other rising commodity costs, an economic slowdown in China, and brewing trouble in the EU. US stocks rallied by the end of the day to...more
We reported last week that a spyware maker recently compromised users’ and victims’ sensitive information. Since that time, another spyware maker, mSpy, which holds itself out as having over a million users employing its...more
The latest large consumer data breach, this time involving Equifax, has also shed a sharp light on an ongoing controversy about consumers’ access to justice. In taking steps to ameliorate its PR crisis, Equifax found itself...more
Enough is enough! I recognize that reasonable minds can differ with respect to whether the Senate should override the CFPB arbitration rule. However, it is inexcusable when plaintiffs’ lawyers and consumer advocates...more
Travis is still kicking around at Uber, and he made that quite clear late last week by using his “outsize voting rights” to name two directors to the 8-member board ahead of a vote to reduce Kalanick’s voting power at the...more
In a mistaken attempt to justify the CFPB’s arbitration rule, supporters are pointing to the need to protect the rights of military servicemembers and the recent Equifax data breach. On September 20, Democratic Senator Jack...more
Industry Groups Respond on Consumer Access to Financial Records - Financial industry groups responded to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) request for information on consumer access to their financial...more