Class Actions vs. Honeywell, M&T Bank Are Transferred to MOVEit MDL
Four class actions vs. Honeywell and two vs. M&T Bank were transferred to In Re: MOVEit Customer Data Security Breach Litigation (docket 3083), said conditional transfer order 31 (CTO-31) Tuesday from the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. The cases join…
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over 200 actions involving Progress Software Corp.’s (PSC) May MOVEit file transfer software data breach that have been transferred to U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in Boston and assigned to U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs. None of the six cases names PSC as a defendant. Also Tuesday, plaintiff Patrick Lew filed a notice of opposition (docket 4:24-cv-00532) to CTO-29, relating to Lew v. Medical Eye Services Inc. et al, pending in U.S. District Court for Northern California after removal from California state court. The Dec. 13 class action, which also names Blue Shield of California, pleads six causes of action for negligence, invasion of privacy and violations of the California Civil Code. Stays were lifted Tuesday on the remaining four cases in CTO-29, along with CTO-27. Plaintiff Alexandra Lardis dropped her claims against Columbia University involving the MOVEit data breach, said her notice of voluntary dismissal (docket 1:23-cv-10241) without prejudice Tuesday in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan. Lardis moved to vacate CTO-23 Jan. 3 (see Ref:2401040007), saying her claims “materially differ” from those at issue in centralized actions in CTO-23. Lardis’ case “has nothing to do with the negligence of the defendants in the MOVEit action,” said her motion, which alleges Columbia breached its contractual obligations to her and class members regarding its handling of their private information.