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LastPass Seeks Stay Until Court Rules on Motion to Consolidate

LastPass and its parent GoTo Technologies, with the consent of plaintiff Debt Cleanse Group Legal Services, seek a stay of all deadlines in their proceeding until U.S. District Judge Patti Saris for Massachusetts in Boston decides whether to consolidate the seven substantially similar class actions and appoint interim class counsel in the first-filed case, said their memorandum Monday (docket 1:22-cv-12047) in support of the stay. All the cases stem from an August data breach in which the plaintiffs allege their personally identifiable information was exposed to hackers (see 2302080046). Thursday is the deadline for LastPass and GoTo to file their answer to the first-filed complaint, and Saris scheduled a March 24 virtual hearing on the motion to consolidate. A limited stay is “appropriate” because it will “conserve judicial resources and provide for the efficient administration of these cases, which are all in their early stages,” said the memorandum. If consolidation is granted for all or some of the seven cases, the combined plaintiffs “may file an amended consolidated class action complaint, which would moot their current pleadings,” it said. A stay “will not disrupt other case deadlines as no initial scheduling conferences have been held, discovery has not begun, and no other case deadlines have been established,” it said.