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Ninth Circuit Finds Data Breach Customers Have Initial Standing to Sue

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The Situation: Relating to a 2012 data breach lawsuit against Zappos.com, a district court had found that a certain group of plaintiffs lacked standing to sue because they "failed to allege instances of actual identity theft...more

Carlton Fields

Ninth Circuit Gives Leg Up To Shoe Purchasers’ Data Breach Suit

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On March 8, a Ninth Circuit panel held that fear of identity theft in the wake of a data breach satisfies the standing requirements of Article III of the United States Constitution....more

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Appellate Court Finds Risk of Identity Theft Sufficient to Establish Standing, Circuit Split Worsens

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has found that allegations of a future risk of identity theft resulting from a data breach are sufficient to establish standing....more

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Court Dismisses Zappos Data Breach MDL Without Prejudice, Attributing Plaintiffs’ Alleged Harm “To The Realm of Speculation”

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On June 1, 2015, a U.S. District Court in Nevada dismissed a consolidated class action against Zappos stemming from a data breach in January 2012. The court held that the plaintiffs lacked standing given their failure to...more

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