Calif. Judge Orders Consolidation of Data Breach Cases Against Orrick Herrington
Four negligence class actions against Orrick Herrington, a global law firm that has defended data breach clients (see 2312050005), have many of the same claims, proposed class definitions and “sufficient commonality of issues and parties” to warrant consolidation, said U.S.…
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District Judge Susan Illston for Northern California in San Francisco in an order Monday (docket 3:23-cv-06264). The class actions, brought by Dennis Werley (docket 3:23-cv-04089), Robert Jensen (docket 3:23-cv-04433), Robert Bass and Jody Frease (docket 3:23-cv-06227) and Kimberly McCauley (docket 3:23-cv-06264), involve a March 13 data breach affecting some 150,000 persons. The order also applies to any action filed in, transferred to, or removed to the San Francisco court that relates to the Orrick data breach, and shall apply to all actions included in case number 3:23-cv-04089, the order said. Plaintiffs’ consolidated complaint is due within 30 days of the order.