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2024 Year in Review: Data Privacy and Cybersecurity

Goodwin on 3/17/2025

Welcome to the “Data Privacy and Cybersecurity” chapter of our annual report, Consumer Financial Services: 2024 Year in Review. Consumer financial services regulators are taking a keen interest in artificial intelligence...more

The Intangible Concrete Injury: A 2024 Update of Post-TransUnion Decisions on ‎Standing for Data Breach Class Actions

Troutman Pepper Locke on 11/14/2024

Jurisprudence on Article III standing requires a plaintiff to demonstrate an injury in fact, which must be both (1) concrete and (2) actual or imminent. For a plaintiff seeking redress in a data breach case, sufficiently...more

Akin Intelligence - September 2023

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 9/18/2023

Welcome to the September edition of Akin Intelligence. As the U.S. Congress reconvenes after the August recess, we continue to see bipartisan interest in artificial intelligence (AI) regulation. In the executive branch,...more

Commercial Litigation Outlook - 2022

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 3/15/2022

Welcome to the second annual installment of Seyfarth Shaw’s Commercial Litigation Outlook. Our nationally recognized team provides keen insights about what to expect in 2022. In short, it will be a busy year that will call...more

Data Breach Class Actions: U.S. Supreme Court Decision May Tilt the Odds in Favor of Defendant Organizations

Blank Rome LLP on 8/4/2021

Corporate defendants besieged by proliferating bet-the-company privacy and consumer class action lawsuits recently scored a victory in the US Supreme Court with implications for data breach victims. Originally published in...more

The U.S. Supreme Court Raises the Bar on Standing in Privacy and Data Breach Class Actions

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 6/29/2021

On Friday, a sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling, which significantly impacts the plaintiffs’ ability to pursue privacy and data breach class actions in federal courts. In TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez, Case No....more

Central District of California Rejects Class Claims, Finding That Disclosure of All Data Is Not Required Under FCRA Section...

Womble Bond Dickinson on 12/3/2020

On November 18, 2020, the United States District Court for the Central District of California (the “Central District”) dismissed the First Amended Complaint of putative class representatives asserting a FCRA claim against...more

2019 Year in Review for Financial Services Class Actions

BCLP on 3/9/2020

Focus areas included FCRA, Fair Lending, ancillary fees and services (such as lender placed flood insurance), TCPA, privacy and data security and other topics. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Director Kathleen...more

FCRA Claims Dismissed in Massive Equifax Data Breach Case

Womble Bond Dickinson on 3/7/2019

Yesterday, the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia granted a motion to dismiss FCRA claims in a case involving one of the largest data breaches in history....more

Preliminary approval of class action settlement for Experian data breach exceeds $47M

Womble Bond Dickinson on 12/10/2018

Remember Experian’s massive data breach of 15 million customers in 2015? The resulting consolidated class action is nearly resolved. On December 3, 2018, a California federal judge granted preliminary approval to a proposed...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - August 2017

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 9/1/2017

Ninth Circuit Finds in Spokeo Remand That Certain Statutory Violations Can Satisfy Article III’s Standing Requirement - In a highly anticipated decision, the Ninth Circuit ruled that violations of the Fair Credit Reporting...more

Advertising Litigation Report: Vol. 2, No. 2 - Consumer Privacy and Data Security

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP on 5/1/2017

Judge Trims Proposed Class Action Over Wendy’s Data Breach - Torres v. Wendy’s Int’l, LLC, No. 16-cv-0210 (PGB) (DCI) (M.D. Fla. Mar. 21, 2017). A U.S. district court judge in Florida trimmed a proposed class action...more

Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Update Vol. 13

Jones Day on 3/15/2017

On December 28, 2016, the New York Department of Financial Services ("DFS") released a revised version of a proposed regulation that would require banks, insurance companies, and other financial services institutions...more

Top 10 Litigation Risks and Trends for Retailers

Perkins Coie on 12/16/2016

With the 2016 holiday shopping season in full swing, the risk of litigation heightens for retailers. We created our own version of a “holiday list” to identify the top-10 risk areas where retailers may be vulnerable to claims...more

16 data breach class action lawsuits filed again 21st Century Oncology consolidated

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 10/13/2016

We previously reported that 21st Century Oncology suffered a data breach in October 2015 involving an intrusion into its systems which compromised around 2 million patients’ records, including their names, Social Security...more

Dual Decisions Provide Narrow Path for Plaintiffs to Establish Standing in Data Breach and Cybersecurity Suits

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP on 5/24/2016

Last week, decisions by the United States Supreme Court and the Northern District of Georgia provided further guidance regarding the narrow path required for a class action plaintiff to successfully establish Article III...more

New and Disruptive Technologies: The Care and Feeding of the New Economy [Expect Focus – Vol. I, Winter 2016]

Carlton Fields on 5/6/2016

IN THE SPOTLIGHT - The CFPB Takes First Enforcement Action Related to Data Security Practices. LIFE INSURANCE - Class Certified in Unique Fixed Indexed Annuity Case. Alleged Misrepresentations to DFS Warrant...more

2016 Data Breach Litigation Report

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner on 4/7/2016

Data security breaches – and data security breach litigation – dominated the headlines in 2015 and continue to do so in 2016. Continuous widely publicized breaches have led to 30,000 articles a month being published that...more

Evolving Litigation of Data Breach Claims

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx on 9/25/2015

An Illinois circuit court judge has dismissed five of six claims in a consolidated class action against Advocate Health and Hospital Corporation arising from a data breach in July 2013. The judge’s dismissal with prejudice...more

Financial Services Report, Fall 2015

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 9/18/2015

BELTWAY - Straight Out of the Seventh Circuit The Seventh Circuit recently affirmed a lower court’s ruling that the SEC cannot be sued in district court to stop it from bringing an administrative action. Bebo v. SEC, No....more

Court Dismisses Data Breach Class Complaint For Lack Of Standing

King & Spalding on 2/20/2015

On February 11, 2015, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas held that a plaintiff lacked standing to pursue claims for alleged violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq....more

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