Leveraging Knowledge to Manage Your Data Risks
We have followed the Neiman Marcus case from the moment the data breach was announced [view related posts here, here, and here]. After winding through the judicial system, Neiman Marcus has agreed to settle, and the plaintiffs have requested that the Judge approve the proposed settlement, reached after mediation proceedings.
The settlement…
We have previously reported on the ongoing litigation between Neiman Marcus and class action plaintiffs as a result of the data breach during the holidays in 2013 (related post here). The breach involved the credit card information of up to 350,000 customers.
Although the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Neiman Marcus’ successful dismissal…
We previously reported on the Seventh Circuit’s reversal of the District Court’s dismissal of the data breach class action case against Neiman Marcus.
On August 3, 2015, Neiman Marcus filed a Petition for Rehearing requesting that the full Seventh Circuit consider the case.
The basis for the Petition is that the Seventh Circuit’s opinion was…
In an unusual turn for recent data breach class action cases, the Seventh Circuit this week found that a likely threat of identity theft is sufficient for a proposed class to have standing to sue Nieman Marcus for a cyber-hacking incident that affected 350,000 card holders in January of 2014.
The lower Court dismissed the…
