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Data Breach Litigation
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Class Action Lawsuit Defense
Clapper and Data Breach Litigation
In Clapper v. Amnesty International USA, 133 S. Ct. 1138 (2013), the Supreme Court recently held that individuals claiming injury from the federal government’s right to conduct electronic surveillance under…
Class Action Lawsuit Defense
Court Denies Motion for Class Certification in Hannaford
Editor's Note: This is a cross-blog post with BakerHostetler’s Data Privacy Monitor blog. For the latest news and updates regarding privacy and data protection, visit www.DataPrivacyMonitor.com. In an order surely to reverberate…
Privacy & Data Security Law Journal
New U.S. Supreme Court Decision Will Likely Impact Data Breach Litigation
The following Data Security Law Journal post was authored by Becky Schwartz, my law partner at Shook Hardy & Bacon. Becky is an experienced class action litigator who has developed…
Proskauer on Privacy
Data Breach Case Research Paper Sheds Light
In a draft research paper titled "Empirical Analysis of Data Breach Litigation", three prominent scholars have collected and analyzed a sample of over 230 federal data breach lawsuits in order…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
Class Action Suit Filed Against Cloud Service over Data Breach
A class action complaint filed in federal court on June 22, 2011, alleges that the popular cloud-based storage provider Dropbox failed to secure users' private data or to notify the…
Class Action Countermeasures
The Data Breach Class Action
By The Editors
For the most part, this blog has focused on tactics that defendants may use to oppose class certification. But another important part of class action defense is being alert to…
Proskauer on Privacy
Geez Ruiz: 9th Circuit (Probably) Ends Long-standing Data Breach Litigation Against Gap, Inc. and Others
On May 28, 2010, in an unpublished decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the California district court's dismissal of a class action lawsuit against retailer…