State Bar & Bar Associations,
Data Privacy,
Civil Litigation
Sep. 16, 2022
Lawsuit over bar’s data breach may return to state court
“The Sherman Act claims are the basis on which the case was removed to this court from state court. The effort to turn this data breach case into an antitrust case seems to be an overreach,” said U.S. Magistrate Judge Douglas F. McCormick.
A proposed class action over the inadvertent release and publication of internal State Bar data likely does not belong in federal court because the plaintiffs’ antitrust claims don’t appear to fall under the Sherman Act, a U.S. magistrate judge said Thursday.
“The Sherman Act claims are the basis on which the case was removed to this court from state court,” U.S. Magistrate Judge Douglas F. McCormick said at a hearing. “The effort to turn ...
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