In a ruling that could provide an important boost future consumer data breach class action litigation, the Seventh Circuit has reinstated the Neiman Marcus data breach lawsuit, ruling that the district court erred in concluding that the plaintiffs’ fear of future harm from the breach was insufficient to establish standing to pursue their claims. As Alison Frankel said about the appellate court’s ruling in her July 21, 2015 post on her On the Case blog entitled “The Seventh Circuit Just Made it A Lot Easier to Sue Over Data Breaches” (here), “this is a really consequential decision.” The Seventh Circuit’s July 20, 2015 opinion in the Neiman Marcus case can be found here.
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