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Appellate Court Lowers Pleading Requirements for Standing in Optometrists’ Data Breach Suit

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has found that allegations that fraudsters used the personal information of data breach victims are sufficient to establish standing even without any fraudulent charges...more

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Data Breach Class Action Case Dismissed Against Barnes & Noble

A federal judge in Illinois dismissed the class action lawsuit filed against Barnes & Noble stemming from a data breach in 2013. The breach occurred when credit and debit card PIN pads were compromised at 63 Barnes & Noble...more

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SuperValu Consolidated Class Action Data Breach Complaint Dismissed For Lack Of Standing

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On January 7, 2016, the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota dismissed for lack of standing the consolidated data breach complaint filed by consumers against SuperValu, Inc., AB Acquisition, LLC, and New...more

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Court Grants Standing Against Coca-Cola Employer for Breach of Employee Information

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The decision does not change the law on what is necessary to prove standing, although it does reinforce the notion that a plaintiff will have standing if he or she can allege a concrete injury. In the latest in a slew of...more

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Pennsylvania Data Breach Class Action Survives Motion to Dismiss

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A federal judge in Pennsylvania has allowed a data breach class action against Coca-Cola and several bottling companies to proceed, finding that the plaintiff has Article III standing even though he had left Coca-Cola’s...more

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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

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Financial Services Companies Seek Larger Payout in Target Data Security Suit

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Attorneys for certain banks and other financial institutions that are caught up in Target’s 2013 data breach are objecting to the $67 million deal struck last week between the retailer and Visa Inc. The banks and credit...more

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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

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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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Seventh Circuit Finds Article III Standing for Data Breach Class Action Based on Allegations of Future Harm

In the wake of numerous data breach cases dismissed for lack of Article III standing based on the Supreme Court’s decision in Clapper v. Amnesty Int’l USA, 133 S. Ct. 1138, 1147 (2013), the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals...more

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Neiman Marcus files Petition for Rehearing En Banc

We previously reported on the Seventh Circuit’s reversal of the District Court’s dismissal of the data breach class action case against Neiman Marcus. On August 3, 2015, Neiman Marcus filed a Petition for Rehearing requesting...more

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Seventh Circuit: Neiman Marcus Data Breach Victims Have Standing To Bring Class Action

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The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals decided on July 20, 2015, that individuals whose credit card information was exposed to hackers in the 2013 Neiman Marcus data breach have standing to sue the luxury department store in a...more

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Hacked Class Can Sue Pre Injury

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Last week, a three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held in Remijas v. Neiman Marcus Group LLC that individuals whose debit and credit card numbers were stolen by cyberthieves who had hacked into Neiman...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Does Free Credit Monitoring Do More "Harm" Than Good?

The Seventh Circuit reinstates the Neiman Marcus data breach class action lawsuit after finding that increased risk of future fraudulent charges and greater susceptibility to identify theft are sufficient for standing. ...more

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