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
A new Fourth Circuit decision has thrown out of federal court a state-law privacy claim where the plaintiff alleged only a bare statutory violation without alleging “a nonspeculative, increased risk of identity theft,”...more
Despite overlap of alleged putative nationwide class definitions, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) denied Geico’s attempt to consolidate five class-action lawsuits arising from a data breach notification...more
Entities sued for a data breach – even one that is consolidated into a multidistrict litigation proceeding in the defendant’s home state – should not forget the personal jurisdiction defense, which can provide a powerful tool...more
In Gardiner v. Walmart, Inc., a Walmart customer who purchased goods online filed a putative class action alleging that Walmart's cybersecurity procedures led to a purported unauthorized disclosure of his personal identifying...more