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Fishman Haygood LLP

U.S. Sixth Circuit Panel’s Rejection of GM’s Article III Standing and Predominance Challenges to Class Certification is Now Set...

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An August 2024 decision by a panel of the U.S. Sixth Circuit in Speerly v. General Motors, which underscores key developments in the law governing class certification, Article III standing, and the treatment of manifest...more

Robinson Bradshaw

The Now-Traditional Argument About Non-Traditional Harms—No Answer In Sight

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Our colleague Erik Zimmerman reported in an earlier post the memorable declaration from defense counsel in TransUnion, LLC v. Ramirez, 594 U.S. 413 (2021): when a legal violation results in no harm, those involved should...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The Class Action Chronicle - August 2023

Post-TransUnion, A Closer Examination of Threshold for Article III Standing- Class action trials are rare. The potential magnitude of an adverse verdict, even when improbable, makes the risks of trial unpalatable for...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

11th Circuit Finds One Unwanted Text Message Sufficient to Allow Standing to File Suit in Drazen v. Pinto

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In the case of Drazen v. Pinto, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals sitting en banc ruled unanimously that plaintiffs who received a single unwanted telemarketing text message suffered a concrete injury. In 2019, Susan...more

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Does a Single Call to a Cellphone Meet the Concrete Injury Requirement? The Drazen Decision is Forthcoming

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The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida recently stayed Simpson v. J.G. Wentworth Co. in light of the Eleventh Circuit's pending en banc decision in Drazen v. Pinto. Both cases involve similar Telephone...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Eleventh Circuit Applies TransUnion and Vacates Class Certification

The Eleventh Circuit recently decertified a TCPA settlement class because the class definition included members who could never have Article III standing under Eleventh Circuit precedent.  Drazen v. Pinto, — F.4th –, No....more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

9th Circ. Decision Sets New Framework For Class Certification

The en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit's recent watershed decision in Olean Wholesale Grocery Cooperative Inc. v. Bumble Bee Foods LLC established several significant benchmarks for determining class...more

King & Spalding

En Banc Eleventh Circuit to Address FACTA Standing Issues in Context of Class Settlement

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On October 4, the Eleventh Circuit agreed to review en banc a panel decision holding that a consumer’s heightened risk of identity theft is enough to establish Article III standing. Named plaintiff David Muransky filed a...more

Carlton Fields

Data Breach Class Claims Survive Clapper

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On appeal to the Seventh Circuit, a three-judge panel opinion written by Chief Judge Woods reversed the lower court. Remijas v. Neiman Marcus Group, LLC, No. 14-3122, 2015 WL 4394814, at *3 (7th Cir. July 20, 2015). The panel...more

Carlton Fields

Circuit Split on Standing in Data Breach Class Actions Survives Clapper

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Last Friday, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals denied a retailer’s petition for rehearing en banc of a three-judge panel opinion holding that plaintiffs whose credit card information was stolen in a data breach had...more

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Neiman Marcus Seeks En Banc Review of Seventh Circuit’s Watershed Data Breach Class-Action Decision

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Does a data breach of a retailer’s payment-card information automatically confer Article III standing on affected customers? Is the mere possibility that some criminal element may use pilfered information to commit future...more

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Seventh Circuit Petitioned for Rehearing En Banc to Determine Whether Data Breach Class Claims Survive Clapper, Satisfy Article...

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In January 2014, luxury retailer Neiman Marcus disclosed that it had suffered a cyberattack in which hackers may have gained access to 350,000 credit and debit cards used at its stores in late 2013. Plaintiffs, all of whom...more

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