The U.S. Supreme Court Raises the Bar on Standing in Privacy and Data Breach Class Actions
By EsqSocial Corporation 29/06/21
On Friday, a sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling, which significantly impacts the plaintiffs’ ability to pursue privacy and data breach class actions in federal courts. In TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez, Case No. 20-297, the Court opined that most of the plaintiffs failed to show a “concrete” injury and thus had no standing to pursue their claims because they did not suffer real, personal harm. Reaching beyond the specific facts of the case, this opinion bolstered the companies’ legal...
By: Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints