Magistrate Judge Cancels Data Breach Plaintiff’s Show Cause Hearing

A day after U.S. Magistrate Judge Adam Abelson for Maryland in Baltimore ordered data breach plaintiff Abigail Collins to appear in court for a Jan. 26 hearing to show cause why she hasn’t filed the required consent or declination to have her negligence case against Washington College tried by a magistrate judge (see 2312210035), Abelson canceled the hearing because the case was reassigned to U.S. District Judge Richard Bennett, said two paperless docket entries Thursday (docket 1:23-cv-03258). The docket reports show Collins still hasn’t filed her consent or declination. Collins alleges that the school where she’s a student failed to secure her personally identifiable information in a March data breach (see 2312040021).