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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.
Alston & Bird

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

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Shareholder Suit Against Meta for Data Breach Goes Forward

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Meta (formerly Facebook) has been hit with a revived class-action shareholder suit stemming from its involvement with Cambridge Analytica, a firm that infamously mined Facebook user data for hyper-targeted political...more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

The “DAO Jungle” Chronicles: Federal Court Allows DAO to be Sued as a Partnership

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In a prior post — The DAO Jungle? — we recapped the State of Wyoming’s new legislation extending LLC protections to Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). Under that Wyoming law, a DAO could register as a LLC and its...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Securities Fraud Litigation in Wake of Data Breach

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It is no longer a matter of if, but when companies that suffer a data breach will be sued in a class action lawsuit following a data breach. Many of those data breach cases get dismissed, as it is difficult for consumers to...more

White and Williams LLP

Marriott’s Starwood Data Breach Could Expose 500 Million Customers

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On November 30, 2018 Marriott International announced that hackers gained “unauthorized access” to the Starwood brand reservation database, potentially compromising the accounts of approximately 500 million guests. According...more

Carlton Fields

Still a Target: Court Certifies Bank Class Claims Against Retailer Following Data Breach

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Although Target has tentatively settled consumer data breach class action claims, the retailer remains in the crosshairs of the plaintiffs’ class action bar. On September 15, a Minnesota federal district court certified a...more

Butler Snow LLP

Data Breach Litigation – Financial Institutions Score Another Shot

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Previously I wrote about banks joining the legal battle over data breaches. Anyone not living under a rock knows that there is multidistrict class action litigation involving Target’s massive data breach in December 2013...more

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