May 24, 2021
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday shot down a Wawa manager's request for conditional class certification in a dispute over overtime pay and off-the-clock work, noting that she already tossed those claims earlier this month, rendering the motion for class certification moot.
May 12, 2021
Convenience store chain Wawa Inc. can't duck employees' claims that their payment and personal information were stolen in a data breach, but claims the company also shorted them on overtime and made them work off-the-clock were tossed by a Pennsylvania federal judge Wednesday.
May 06, 2021
A Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Thursday that Wawa will have to face some claims leveled by financial institutions over a data breach at the convenience store chain, in part because the institutions presented the "stronger argument" that Wawa has a legal duty to protect their private information.
May 05, 2021
Despite a clarification that a $12 million settlement over a Wawa data breach doesn't release the chain from employees' personal information theft claims, the workers' attorney told a Pennsylvania federal court Wednesday he still hoped to keep his clients out of the deal entirely.
March 08, 2021
Wawa employees have urged a Pennsylvania federal judge not to approve a proposed $12 million settlement over the convenience store's 2019 data breach, arguing the deal focuses entirely on customer plaintiffs and was made without input from workers.
February 19, 2021
A proposed class of roughly 22 million Wawa customers asked a Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday to preliminarily approve a settlement worth up to $12 million to resolve the consumer track of a putative class action against the grocer that arose from a 2019 security data breach that exposed the credit and debit card numbers of Wawa customers.
November 10, 2020
Wawa Inc. told a Pennsylvania judge during arguments on Tuesday that contracts governing security protocols for credit and debit card information barred a group of financial institutions from pursuing common law negligence claims over a data breach at the convenience store chain.
August 13, 2020
Wawa Inc. has called on a Pennsylvania federal court to toss a consolidated proposed class action from three credit unions over a data breach at the convenience store chain, saying they can't pursue negligence claims since losses related to the incident are governed by contracts dealing with credit and debit card transactions.