9 Plaintiffs Propose Consolidation in Dish Data Breach Lawsuit

Nine plaintiffs suing Dish in privacy complaints over data breaches moved the court to consolidate the related cases, said their Friday motion (docket 1:23-cv-01315) in U.S. District Court for Colorado in Denver. The proposed cases -- Owen-Brooks v. Dish (1:23-cv-01168), Clark v. Dish (docket 1:23-cv-01315), Cruse v. Dish (docket 1:23-cv-01319), Turley v. Dish (docket 1:23-cv-01346), Ellerbrock v. Dish (1:23-cv-01372), Jenkins v. Dish (docket 1:23-cv-01387), Cardenas v. Dish (docket 1:23-cv-01405), Garza v. Dish (docket 1:23-cv-01458), and Vest v. Dish (docket 1:23-cv-01462) -- allege the defendant failed to properly secure customers’ and employees’ personally identifiable information from hackers after a February network outage. The motion seeks to stay all deadlines in the cases proposed for consolidation. The motion proposed Mason Barney of Siri & Glimstad, Bryan Bleichner of Chestnut Cambronne and Scott Cole of Cole & Van Note as interim co-lead class counsel.