Xfinity Customer Dismisses His Data Breach Class Action vs. Comcast, Citrix

Xfinity customer Curtis Brown dismissed without prejudice his Dec. 21 negligence lawsuit vs. Comcast and Citrix Systems arising from Citrix’s October data breach, said the parties' stipulation Monday (docket 0:23-cv-62392) in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Fort Lauderdale. Brown’s class action was one of a dozen named in a motion before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to transfer the cases in In Re: Citrix Data Security Breach Litigation to the Eastern District of Pennsylvania for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings (see 2401120011). Also in the Southern Florida district court Monday, U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks granted the parties’ Thursday motion to transfer the venue of plaintiff Jessica Carey’s Jan. 3 class action vs. Comcast to the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (see 2403080006), said his signed order (docket 0:24-cv-60008). Middlebrooks found that 28 U.S.C. section 1404(a) change of venue factors, plus the “first-filed” rule, weighed in favor of transfer, said the order. Middlebrooks signed an order Thursday dismissing Citrix from Carey’s class action following her March 1 notice of voluntary dismissal.