September 17, 2015
The Seventh Circuit declined to rehear an appeal it decided against Neiman Marcus over a payment card data breach on Thursday, leaving in place the precedential ruling that held plaintiffs can sue for the trouble and expense of preventing fraud on their accounts.
August 04, 2015
Neiman Marcus asked the Seventh Circuit to rehear en banc a panel's ruling giving plaintiffs standing to sue over a payment card data breach, saying the panel's "loose thinking" set an erroneous precedent that could have long term effects on data breach law.
July 21, 2015
The Seventh Circuit's finding Monday that Neiman Marcus customers affected by a hacking incident are likely to suffer some form of future fraud will curtail defendants' use of a Supreme Court ruling that plaintiffs suing over a potential injury must prove impending certainty, a commonly cited precedent in data breach litigation, attorneys say.
July 20, 2015
Neiman Marcus customers whose credit card information was stolen in a data security breach have standing to sue not only after fraudulent charges appear but also for fraud-prevention expenses such as credit monitoring, the Seventh Circuit said Monday in a precedential ruling.
January 23, 2015
Several Neiman Marcus Group LLC customers on Friday pressed the Seventh Circuit to resurrect their proposed class action alleging the luxury department store chain's lax data security led to a 2013 hack that compromised the credit card numbers of 350,000 shoppers, finding a receptive audience to their cause on the appeals panel.