Eleventh Circuit Affirms $380.5M Class Action Settlement in Equifax Data Breach Litigation

Last week, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the $380.5M settlement in the Equifax data breach class actions – a settlement which the district court called “the largest and most comprehensive recovery in a data breach case in U.S. history by several orders of magnitude.” The appeal was brought by 6 objectors out of the 147 million class members whose data was involved in the breach. The Eleventh Circuit’s 64-page ruling covers the waterfront of class action law...
By: Balch & Bingham LLP

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