News & Analysis as of

Corporate Counsel Class Action California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

Smith Anderson

Brewing Trouble: The Steep Price of Privacy Missteps

Smith Anderson on

A recent high-profile breach at a women-focused dating app underscores how quickly a privacy misstep can escalate into lawsuits and reputational harm. The incident offers a cautionary tale for any company handling sensitive...more

Baker Botts L.L.P.

CCPA Class Actions Without a Data Breach; Courts Signal a New Litigation Frontier.

Baker Botts L.L.P. on

Two recent decisions from the Northern District of California—Shah v. Capital One Financial Corp., No. 24-cv-05985-TLT, 2025 WL 714252 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 3, 2025), and M.G. v. Therapymatch, Inc., No. 23-cv-04422-AMO, 2024 WL...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

U.S. Privacy Litigation Update: January 2025

Husch Blackwell LLP on

Welcome to the twentieth installment in our monthly data privacy litigation report. We prepare these reports to provide updates on how courts in the United States have handled emerging data privacy trends. After our expansive...more

WilmerHale

Year in Review: CCPA Litigation Trends from 2023

WilmerHale on

This post is part of a series of articles we are doing on 2023 data protection litigation trends. While the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is most known for its onerous privacy compliance obligations, the law also...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

Enforcing U.S. Consumer Data Privacy Laws Part 3: Private Litigation and Arbitration

Pierce Atwood LLP on

In this third installment on the enforcement of U.S. consumer data privacy laws, we focus on the role of private litigants. Following our discussions of state and federal government enforcement, this post focuses on the third...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

JPML Articulates Limitations for Consolidation in Geico Data Breach Litigation

Troutman Pepper Locke on

Despite overlap of alleged putative nationwide class definitions, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) denied Geico’s attempt to consolidate five class-action lawsuits arising from a data breach notification...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

CCPA Breach Class Action Settlement About to Get “Minted”

Although the California Consumer Protection Act (“CCPA”) went into effect on January 1, 2020 and over 100 class actions referencing the CCPA have been filed to date, very few class actions have actually made their way to...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

First Classwide Settlement Involving CCPA Statutory Damages Provides Little Guidance Moving Forward

For those of us waiting to see how the CCPA's statutory damage provision would impact the value of data breach class actions, the wait continues. Three of the first consumer class actions alleging CCPA violations for a...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

The Minted Complaint: Another Case Brought Under the CCPA’s Private Right of Action

Well before the California Attorney General’s power to enforce the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) commenced on July 1, 2020, as we have recently reported, private plaintiffs had already jumped into the fray, suing...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

A New CCPA Data Breach Lawsuit Is “Minted”

Online stationery and craft company Minted Inc. has been hit with a CCPA class action lawsuit, stemming from a massive data breach the company disclosed in late May. The proposed class action lawsuit, filed in a California...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Importance of CCPA Compliance Highlighted by First Round of Private Actions

The first wave of California Consumer Privacy Act litigation has begun to roll in, and the complaints are already raising interesting questions about the scope of CCPA’s private right of action. The actions assert a variety...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Just Like That, CCPA Sets A New Standard In Litigation

Fox Rothschild LLP on

The year is off to a litigious start with the help of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which took effect on January 1, 2020. The CCPA has spawned a new kind of class action with consumers asserting CCPA violations...more

Alston & Bird

A CCPA Private Right of Action on the Horizon: Class Action Complaints Test Whether Plaintiffs Can Sue for Any Violation of the...

Alston & Bird on

Plaintiffs’ counsel have started to lay the groundwork for a broad private right of action under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The first part of this article provides an overview of how the CCPA addresses...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

CCPA Litigation Round-Up

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) took effect January 1, 2020. While the California Attorney General’s enforcement authority is delayed until July 1, private litigants have already started to file direct claims...more

BakerHostetler

CCPA Class Actions: Can They Include a Blast From the Past?

BakerHostetler on

Our Digital Assets and Data Management teams have been tracking all aspects of the CCPA, so when Fuentes v. Sunshine Behavioral Health Group, LLC (Case No. 8:20-cv-00487, Central District of California) was filed on March 10,...more

Fisher Phillips

The First Wave of CCPA Class Action Litigation

Fisher Phillips on

California’s all-inclusive privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which took effect on January 1, 2020, has already been cited in numerous lawsuits. Over this next year, employers are likely to see lawsuits...more

Nilan Johnson Lewis PA

Recent IoT Class Actions Highlight Need for Manufacturers & Vendors of Connected Products to Be Aware of Liability Risks

Nilan Johnson Lewis PA on

The Internet of Things (IoT) products have become a way of life. There are huge benefits of “smart” products, which interact through the internet to gather and exchange data to provide additional functions, security, and easy...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Class Action Trends Report Summer 2019

Jackson Lewis P.C. on

Our quarterly report discusses new developments in class action litigation and offers strategic guidance and tactical tips on how to defend such claims. This issue covers the following topics: •California Consumer Privacy...more

BCLP

CCPA Security FAQs: What legal theory are plaintiffs most likely to assert in a data breach class action in addition to the CCPA?

BCLP on

Negligence. For the last five years, BCLP has published the leading analysis of data breach class action litigation. As part of that study, BCLP has reviewed every data breach class action complaint against a private company...more

BCLP

CCPA Security FAQs: What Categories of Information Could Trigger A Consumer Class Action if Breached?

BCLP on

Consumers can successfully bring suit under the CCPA if they can prove the following five elements...more

BCLP

2019 Data Breach Litigation Report

BCLP on

Both 2017 and 2018 saw several high-profile companies suffering large data breaches affecting tens of millions of people. News outlets and social media made quick work of headlines and consumers were reminded, yet again, that...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Potentially Expanded Private Right of Action Increases Risk of Class Action Exposure Under the California Consumer Privacy Act

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on

Looking Back - the California Consumer Privacy Act, and How We Got Here - As companies were getting up-to-speed on the effects of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) last year, California quickly...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Exploring the New California Consumer Privacy Act’s Unusual Class Action Cure Provision

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) takes effect on January 1, 2020, and applies to all companies that do business in the Golden State. The new act is California’s rejoinder to Europe’s General Data Protection...more

23 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide