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What You Need to Know About the INFORM Consumers Act
On June 27, 2023, the Integrity, Notification, and Fairness in Online Retail Marketplaces for Consumers Act (the “INFORM Consumers Act” or the “Act”) went into effect. The INFORM Consumers Act applies to online marketplaces – broadly defined to include “consumer-directed” platforms that “facilitate or enable third party sellers to engage in the sale, purchase, payment,…
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Middlebury College Informed of MOVEit Data Breach By Two Vendors
On June 29, 2023, Middlebury College posted an “Information Security Notice” on its website. Evidently, two of the College’s vendors, the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association (“TIAA”) and the National Student Clearinghouse (“NSC”), used MOVEit, which is a file-transfer software that was recently discovered to contain a vulnerability that allowed hackers to access information stored…
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Mount Desert Island Hospital Notifies 24,180 of Data Breach Involving Leaked Social Security Numbers
On June 30, 2023, Mount Desert Island Hospital (“MDIH”) filed a notice of data breach with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights after discovering that an unauthorized party had gained access to confidential patient information stored on the company’s computer network. In the recently filed notice, MDIH explains that…
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Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe Files Notice of Data Breach After Confirming Recent Cyberattack
On June 30, 2023, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP (“Orrick”) filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of Montana after confirming that a recent security event compromised confidential consumer information in the law firm’s possession. In this notice, Orrick explains that the incident resulted in an unauthorized party being able to access…
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Over 36k Customers of City National Bank of Florida Affected by MOVEit Data Breach
On June 30, 2023, City National Bank of Florida (“CNBF”) filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of Maine, explaining that 36,306 of the bank’s customers were affected by a data breach involving software called MOVEit. Although the breach did not impact CNBF’s computer systems, the bank explains that the incident resulted…
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Georgia-Pacific Ruling Furthers Texas Two-Step Challenges
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently approved injunctive relief as part of a strategy for settling mass tort claims through the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case of Bestwall LLC, an entity created by Georgia-Pacific LLC. A divided three-judge panel upheld a U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of North Carolina injunction…
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Middle District of Pennsylvania Sets out a Road Map for Defendants to Assert the Government Contractor Defense in Asbestos Cases
The Middle District of Pennsylvania’s opinion in Gorton v. Warren Pumps, LLC supported the government contractor defense and set forth a road map for defendants to follow to win summary judgment. The court, relying on the Supreme Court case, Boyle v. United Technologies Corporation, and applying admiralty law, held the government contractor defense was applicable…
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What Happened at Camp Lejeune?
Camp Lejeune is a United States Marine Corps base located in Jacksonville, North Carolina. For decades, the base was contaminated with harmful chemicals that affected as many as one million servicemen and women, civilian staff, and their families who lived there. The situation remained unresolved for years, causing many people to suffer serious health problems,…
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C.D. Cal. Severs Non-California Plaintiffs from Hair Care Case
Albahae v. Olaplex Holdings, Inc., 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 105361 (C.D. Cal. June 15, 2023), is not a drug/device case, but is a very good case severing under Fed. R. Civ. P. 21 an attempt to join 101 plaintiffs on claims involving their use of the defendant’s hair care products. To be specific, there were 12…
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Lukashenko Says Prigozhin Is in Russia, as Wagner Mystery Deepens
After the mercenary boss staged a brief insurrection in Russia, the leader of Belarus said his country had taken him in, but now says the Wagner leader was in St. Petersburg and then “maybe he went to Moscow.”
