A 3rd U.S. Circuit Court's ruling in favor of class-action plaintiffs who argued a data breach harm was intangible, openly rejected the Spokeo case precedent that maintains harm must be demonstrable for privacy suits to move forward, Reuters reports. "Although it is possible to read the Supreme Court’s decision in Spokeo as creating a requirement that a plaintiff show a statutory violation has caused a ‘material risk of harm’ before he can bring suit,” said Judges Kent Jordan, Thomas Vanaskie and Patty Shwartz in their opinion. “We do not believe that the court so intended to change the traditional standard for the establishment of standing.” Meanwhile, Law360 reports that shoe brand Jimmy Choo has settled a proposed class action for alleged "risk of identity theft" while the 7th Circuit Court has "affirmed the dismissal of a Time Warner Cable Inc. subscriber’s proposed class action against the company for storing former customers’ personal information." (Registration may be required to access these stories.)
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