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Data Breach Litigation
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Data Privacy Dish
Rebekah Guyon Quoted in Corporate Counsel Article, ‘Suits Flooding Courts Seize on Decades-Old Wiretapping Laws to Allege Data Breaches’
Rebekah S. Guyon, a member of GT’s Litigation and Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Practices, was quoted in a Corporate Counsel article titled “Suits Flooding Courts Seize on Decades-Old Wiretapping Laws to Allege…
Privacy World
CPW’s Kristin Bryan, Jesse Taylor and Shing Tse Co-Author Chapter for Lexis Practical Guidance on Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Breach Litigation: Key Laws and Considerations
By Kristin Bryan, Jesse Taylor, Shing Tse
CPW’s Kristin Bryan, a 2022 Law360 Privacy & Cybersecurity MVP as well as a featured subject matter expert for LexisNexis, Jesse Taylor and Shing Tse teamed up to co-author a…
Privacy World
JPML Declines to Create MDL for Data Breach Cases
This week the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (“JPML”) declined to create a multidistrict litigation (“MDL”) from competing class action lawsuits stemming from the same data incident. Read on to…
Privacy World
Ninth Circuit District Court Finds No Standing for Alleged Lost Commercial and Proprietary Data in Privacy Litigation
Recently, a federal court in California held that the loss of stored data, without more, is insufficient to establish Article III standing to withstand a motion to dismiss. In so…
Privacy World
Motion for Preliminary Approval of Accellion Data Breach Settlement Filed in California Federal Court
This week Plaintiffs in thirteen consolidated cases brought against Accellion and other defendants filed a motion for preliminary approval of a class action settlement in California federal court. This development…
The D&O Diary
Cybersecurity Firm Hit with Data Breach-Related Securities Suit
Regular readers of this site know that one of the continuing D&O litigation trends over the last several years has been the incidence of securities class action lawsuits and other…
Privacy World
Court Rejects Demand for “Corrective” Notice in Blackbaud Data Breach MDL
In spring of 2020, cybercriminals infiltrated the computer networks of Blackbaud, a South Carolina-based cloud-computing provider. Once in Blackbaud’s system, cybercriminals copied the data of a number of individuals and…
Privacy World
Webinar Now Available: Defending Work-Product Status and Attorney-Client Privilege of Forensic Reports
Data breach litigation continues to expand with each new state law passed to regulate data storage and disclosures. This context poses particular challenges for protecting the attorney-client privilege and work-product…
Privacy World
2021 Year in Review: Data Breach and Cybersecurity Litigations
By Kristin Bryan, Jesse Taylor
2021 was another year of high activity in the realm of data event and cybersecurity litigations with several noteworthy developments. CPW has been tracking these cases throughout the year. Read…
Privacy World
Defendant Prevails in Factual Attack on Standing in Data Event Litigation Proceeding in Ninth Circuit District Court
Here at CPW, we have covered many decisions addressing the need for Article III standing when pleading a claim in federal court. A recent rare decision out of a district…