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District of Maine certifies question of what constitutes “cognizable injury” from data breach to Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • USA
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  • November 11 2009

Last month, the United States District Court for the District of Maine certified a question of law to the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine regarding the issue of what constitutes cognizable injury to a consumer in a case stemming from the alleged theft of credit card data, a question of great signficance in the relatively new field of data security law

Massachusetts Supreme Court affirms dismissal of data breach claims brought against retailer by financial institutions

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 3 2010

Recently, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts upheld two lower court decisions dismissing, on separate motions to dismiss and for summary judgment, a number of claims brought by credit unions against a retailer in connection with a breach of debit and credit card data