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Data breach class actions – Northern District of Georgia dismisses four substantive claims, but two survive

Kilpatrick on 2/28/2025

Takeaway: Former FBI Director Robert Mueller once famously said, “There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked and those that will be.” These days cyberattacks seem to happen all the time. And when a...more

Promissory Notes - Banking & Finance Insights: V 3, Issue 1, January 2023

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 1/26/2023

Plaintiffs Pursuing Increased Class Action Breach of Contract Claims for Overdraft Fees and Charges Against Customers - “With plaintiff attorneys seeing potential large dollar settlements and verdicts, along with increased...more

Potential Harm Enough For Class Action to Proceed in Data Breach Litigation

Genova Burns LLC on 9/14/2022

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has given new life to a putative class action suit led by a former employee of a company that suffered a ransomware attack, leading to her sensitive information being released onto the Dark...more

Data Breach: No Injury-in-Fact, Case Dismissed

Knobbe Martens on 11/25/2020

It well known that there are, unfortunately, many data breaches that frequently put private citizens’ data privacy in jeopardy. States have passed a variety of statutes aimed at addressing this problem in an attempt to...more

Proposed Privacy Class Action “Collapses in its Entirety” on Commonality

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP on 5/9/2019

On May 7, 2019, in Kaplan v. Casino Rama Services Inc. (Kaplan), the Ontario Superior Court of Justice refused to certify a privacy class action arising out of a criminal cyberattack that included allegations of breach of...more

Plaintiffs Seek Class Certification in Yahoo Data Breach Class Actions

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 9/7/2018

We previously noted that in late 2016, Yahoo disclosed that it had experienced multiple data breaches relating to what turned out to be roughly three billion of its accounts. ...more

Latin America Dispute Resolution Update – The Latest Developments in Cross-Border Disputes Involving the US and Latin America

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 7/13/2018

US Courts Will Decide Whether to Enforce US$2 Billion Award Against Petróleos de Venezuela - In April 2018, an International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) tribunal awarded US$2.04 billion in damages to two subsidiaries of U.S....more