Civil Litigation,
Constitutional Law
Jul. 30, 2015
Hacked class can sue, pre injury?
Last week, a court said individuals whose credit card numbers were stolen by cyberthieves have standing to sue, even though the plaintiffs had not yet experienced any fraudulent charges on their cards.
Tyler G. Newby
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Stanford University Law School; Stanford CA
Last week, a three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held in Remijas v. Neiman Marcus Group LLC that individuals whose debit and credit card numbers were stolen by cyberthieves who had hacked into Neiman Marcus's computer networks have standing to sue the retailer, even though the plaintiffs had not yet experienced any fraudulent charges on their cards. In doing so, the 7th Circuit became the first federal appellate court to address ...
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