City of Hope National Medical Center had a responsibility to protect the personally identifiable information (PII) of some 820,000 patients but failed to do so during an Oct. 13 data breach, alleged a class action Tuesday (docket 2:24-cv-02890) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Riverside.
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ESO Solutions’ motion to strike the class allegations in a consolidated class action complaint (CCAC) involving its September data breach is “premature and meritless,” said the plaintiffs’ memorandum of law Tuesday (docket 1:23-cv-01557) in U.S. District Court for Western Texas in Austin in opposition to ESO’s March 28 motion.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Maria Audero granted plaintiff Damien Sabella’s ex parte application for expedited discovery in his fraud case against 10 John Does in U.S. District Court for Central California in Los Angeles, said her Monday order (docket 2:23-cv-09907).
Coppe Healthcare Solutions failed to state a claim upon which relief may be granted, said defendant Brightsky, parent company to Simplifi, in its answer (docket 2:24-cv-00088) and affirmative defenses to Coppe’s negligence complaint Monday in U.S. District Court for Eastern Wisconsin in Milwaukee.
HP’s claim that it’s entitled to dismissal of an 80-count antitrust and consumer fraud class action depends on "applying pleading standards that have no basis in the law of this circuit," said the response Monday (docket 1:24-cv-00164) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago from the 11 plaintiffs in opposition to HP's motion to dismiss.
Pewaukee, Wisconsin, “repeatedly informed” AT&T of the “problems, difficulties and failures” it had using Simplifi Connect II routers on AT&T’s FirstNet network to communicate with its Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system, said plaintiff Coppe Healthcare Solutions in its memorandum of law (docket 2:24-cv-00088) in opposition to AT&T’s motion to dismiss a negligence suit.
Notices of appearance in In Re: Apple Inc. Smartphone Antitrust Litigation are due on or before April 17, said a text-only revised briefing schedule Friday at the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. In their briefs, parties should address what steps they have taken to pursue alternatives to centralization including engaging in informal coordination of discovery and scheduling, said the order.
Cain King of Moncks Corner, South Carolina, provided his name, Social Security number and other personally identifiable information (PII) to SouthState Bank, which failed to keep it confidential and to protect it from unauthorized access and disclosure, alleged a class action Friday (docket 8:24-cv-00849) in U.S. District Court for Middle Florida in Tampa.
The plaintiffs in a negligence complaint vs. LastPass allege the theft of their cryptocurrency and digital assets were due to LastPass’ willful and knowing failure to warn them that information stored in their LastPass Vaults could be accessed following an August 2022 data breach.
The former chief technology officer of Lifetoken Software abruptly resigned March 1 and is holding the company “hostage, seeking to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars” from the firm before he returns its property, Lifetoken's complaint alleged Friday (docket 1:24-cv-02587) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan. Lifetoken claims violations of the Defend Trade Secrets, Computer Fraud & Abuse and Stored Communications Acts.