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Navigating Standing Considerations in Data Breach Class Actions

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The growing prevalence of data breaches has led to an uptick in class action litigation based on consumers' personal information allegedly being accessed. A common theme emerging in these lawsuits is plaintiffs claiming that...more

Kilpatrick

Data breach class actions: SDNY finds standing based on sketchy injury-in-fact allegations

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Takeaway: Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Clapper v. Amnesty Int’l USA, 568 U.S. 398, 416 (2013), that plaintiffs “cannot manufacture standing merely by inflicting harm on themselves based on . . . hypothetical...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

District of Massachusetts Dismisses Data Breach Class Action for Lack of Injury

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On October 18, 2022, in Webb v. Injured Workers Pharmacy, LLC, the District of Massachusetts dismissed a class action complaint brought by former pharmacy patients alleging that their sensitive personal information had been...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

No Federal Court Standing for Data Breach Claims Alleging Theft of Non-Sensitive Personal Information

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A federal court in California has ruled that the plaintiff in a putative class action alleging theft of non-sensitive personal information arising from a cybersecurity data breach lacks Article III standing to maintain his...more

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