July 19, 2016
Home Depot moved Tuesday to block an $8.5 million fee award requested by attorneys who guided consumers to a $13 million class action settlement after a massive data breach, saying the fee bid amounts to an excessive share of the deal and outstrips all standards.
July 07, 2016
Home Depot on Tuesday took the somewhat unusual step of seeking permission to bring to the Eleventh Circuit several questions of law raised by a judge's refusal to toss data breach claims asserted by financial institutions, including whether the banks have standing to sue at all, a request that if granted will determine whether banks will continue to enjoy stronger footing than consumers in these disputes.
July 06, 2016
Home Depot requested an interlocutory appeal to the Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday on six questions of law arising from a suit by financial institutions over a major data hack in which a judge recently allowed the overwhelming majority of claims to stay alive, questioning whether the institutions have standing to sue at all.
May 18, 2016
The overwhelming majority of claims brought by a proposed class of financial institutions and credit union associations against Home Depot in multidistrict litigation over its 2014 data breach can remain, a Georgia federal judge ruled on Wednesday.
April 22, 2016
Banks suing Home Depot over a data breach cannot leverage a new Seventh Circuit decision to establish standing, the hardware big-box retailer said Friday in Georgia federal court, fighting a major remaining foe in the litigation after a multimillion-dollar settlement with consumers last month.
March 09, 2016
Home Depot recently agreed to boost its data security practices and fund identity theft services in addition to paying $13 million to settle putative consumer class claims over its massive 2014 data breach, a model that attorneys say is likely to catch on as a popular way to address the difficulties with quantifying harm for data losses.
March 08, 2016
Home Depot has agreed to pay $13 million, fund identity protection services, and implement new data security measures in order to resolve a putative class of consumers' claims over its massive 2014 data breach, according to documents filed in Georgia federal court Monday.
February 08, 2016
A Georgia federal judge has boosted the ability of banks suing Home Depot over its 2014 data breach to review the retailer's communications with absent putative class members about settlements it may strike with Visa and MasterCard, ruling that the proposed class is entitled to a broad range of documents.
December 14, 2015
The Georgia federal judge overseeing the Home Depot data breach litigation gave the retailer the go-ahead Monday to directly inform absent class members about potential settlements with MasterCard and Visa, despite concerns by a proposed class of banks that such communications could be misleading.
December 09, 2015
Financial institutions in the Home Depot data breach litigation accused the retailer of hijacking the payment card recovery process on Tuesday when they asked a Georgia federal judge to stop Home Depot from sending messages through payment processors to class members that they say are misleading and coercive.