N.J. Called ‘Transferee’ District ‘Best Suited’ for Samsung Class Actions

The New Jersey plaintiffs in two more fraud class actions over Samsung’s summertime data breach support the motion to transfer all the cases to U.S. District Court in Newark and consolidating them under a single judge (see 2210260001), said their response Wednesday before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. New Jersey “is the transferee district best suited” to take on the MDL “because Samsung is headquartered there, relevant documents and witnesses will be found there, and it is where corporate decisions were ultimately made with regard to Samsung’s data security systems, procedures and practices, and response to the data breach,” said attorneys for Joseph Rollins, Alex Chandler and Seledia Serina. While Samsung’s data breach “may have affected consumers throughout the country, it was caused by the actions of Samsung’s employees who are located in the District of New Jersey,” they said.