Cyber breaches resulting in the release of personal identifiable information (PII) are increasingly common and now we are starting to see class action lawsuits filed as a result. In what will likely be the beginning of a wave of lawsuits filed as a result of cyber breaches, Schnucks Markets, operator of 100 supermarkets across the Midwest, recently removed a class action lawsuit filed against it to federal court stemming from a data breach that occurred in March in which 2.4 million credit card numbers were stolen.
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First Circuit Applies Massachusetts Law in Absence of Agreement in Class Settlement
By Bruce Raymond on
Posted in Court Decisions
Last week, the First Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a ruling that all class action attorneys should remember. In the Volkswagen and Audi Warranty Extension Litigation, the litigants had reached a class action settlement that permitted class counsel to seek an award of reasonable attorney fees. The U.S. District Court for the District…